Yucatan notebook — These visual fieldnotes were the first that I kept as part of a study trip with students (and, to this degree at least, as part of any field research). I wanted to emphasize to students that research requires constant notetaking and that notebooks become constant companions in the field. Because I also wanted students to see what I was documenting, I decided to concentrate on drawing. Almost nobody approaches me and asks what I’m writing in my notebooks, but drawing is another story. Throughout our time in the Yucatan, I had conversations not only with students but others who saw me drawing. On top of that I realized just how much I learned from drawing—from taking the time to observe carefully and think about the process of looking—in addition to writing. While I have always been concerned about anthropology’s rush to put things into words—to reduce our N-dimensional world into thin lines of text—drawing as part of field research has pushed me to be much more multi-sensoral in general in my observations.