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The 9 pages that link to Field notes, each with the reason it gives.

• EthnographyRelated: They preserve details that later inform ethnographic analysis and writing.

• Participant observationRelated: They preserve observations that memory alone would distort or lose.

• Cultural anthropologyRelated: They preserve the situated details from which fieldwork interpretations develop.

• Dorothea LangeRelated: Lange used captions and notes to preserve information gathered alongside her photographs.

• Field researchRelated: They preserve contextual details and document how interpretations developed.

• Fossil collectingRelated: Notes preserve locality and geological details that a detached specimen cannot carry.

• Scientific expeditionRelated: Notes preserve context that specimens and measurements alone cannot capture.

• Insect collectingRelated: Locality, date, habitat, and collection method preserve context that a specimen alone cannot show.

• Note-takingBroader topic: Field notes preserve details that may disappear once observation ends.