Tenzin Kunchok, part of a team of 16 locally originating trained field research assistants, interviews a quake survivor in Gorkha District of Nepal. The roles taken on by this team included returning to their home districts to identify community members who were available and willing to either be interviewed or tell stories about their experiences. They were also tasked with preserving data and gathering related metadata, and working with two linguistics research assistants at Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu on translation and transcription of selected interviews and narratives.

Credit: Kristine Hildebrandt, Department of English Language & Literature, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; Sienna Craig, Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College; Geoff Childs, Department of Anthropology, Washington University St Louis; Mark Donohue, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University

Yangchen Bista, part of a team of 16 locally originating trained field research assistants, interviews a quake survivor in Mustang District of Nepal. The roles taken on by this team included returning to their home districts to identify community members who were available and willing to either be interviewed or tell stories about their experiences. They were also tasked with preserving data and gathering related metadata, and working with two linguistics research assistants at Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu on translation and transcription of selected interviews and narratives.

Credit: Kristine Hildebrandt, Department of English Language & Literature, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; Sienna Craig, Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College; Geoff Childs, Department of Anthropology, Washington University St Louis; Mark Donohue, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University