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trabajo de gabinete

English translation: office-work or deskwork

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Spanish term or phrase:trabajo de gabinete
English translation:office-work or deskwork
Entered by: Mar_crp

19:21 Jun 17, 2004
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Management
Spanish term or phrase: trabajo de gabinete
As opposed to trabajo de campo (fieldwork)in a text about project analysis.
"A pesar de que el trabajo que debe desarrollarse es fundamentalmente de gabinete..."
translatol
Local time: 13:50
office-work or deskwork
Explanation:
I have borrowed this idea about "deskwork" from the anthropologist John Van Maanen who argued that "writing an ethnography is office-work or deskwork, not fieldwork" (1988: 4).
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Mar_crp
Argentina
Local time: 09:50
Grading comment
Thank you very much. The citation was helpful.
3 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +3desk work
anaell
5 +1office-work or deskwork
Mar_crp
3office work
Penelope Ausejo


  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
office work


Explanation:
My guess...

Penelope Ausejo
Spain
Local time: 14:50
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Spanish
Grading comment
Thanks for the suggestion. Actually I haven't totally declined it but have chosen instead one that includes it.
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The asker has declined this answer
Comment: Thanks for the suggestion. Actually I haven't totally declined it but have chosen instead one that includes it.

10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
desk work


Explanation:
como alternativa para que tengas donde elegir....suerte

anaell
Spain
Local time: 14:50
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
Grading comment
Thanks for the suggestion. Actually I haven't totally declined it but have chosen instead one that includes it.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Adriana Adarve (X)
5 hrs
agree  Langfan
12 hrs
agree  Nanny Wintjens
18 hrs
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The asker has declined this answer
Comment: Thanks for the suggestion. Actually I haven't totally declined it but have chosen instead one that includes it.

25 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
office-work or deskwork


Explanation:
I have borrowed this idea about "deskwork" from the anthropologist John Van Maanen who argued that "writing an ethnography is office-work or deskwork, not fieldwork" (1988: 4).



    Reference: http://research.umbc.edu/~dkusic1/opening.html
Mar_crp
Argentina
Local time: 09:50
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 3
Grading comment
Thank you very much. The citation was helpful.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Nanny Wintjens
18 hrs
  -> Thanks!
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