Field work is the practical component of anthropology. The person will immerse themselves in the culture they will study. These people must pay attention to everything that happens during their stay. It is important that the ethnographer stays a little more than a year in order to have experiences that he missed during the culture shock (page 42). They must adapt to the native way of life and stop seeing what they do as something foreign and consider it part of their culture. Even though the student will be a foreigner to the culture they find themselves in, they will have to try to live and immerse themselves in the way the locals live. Anthropologist Marjorie Shostak formed personal relationships with their cultural consultants. Shostak worked with the !Kung San in the Dobe region of southwest Africa on the Botswana-South Africa border (page 41). Field work must be done in order to truly study the culture that