Social Implications

It is certainly a privilege for a researcher to be invited to preliminary discussions on a project of this magnitude and import. As I returned from the Stockholm meeting (February 2, 1988; summarized on pp 112-115), there were several voices stirring: those of the academic researcher, those of the missionary, those of the gypsy-scholar, and perhaps most insistently, those of my own experience as farmer’s daughter from rural Ireland.