If you’re writing an ethnography and you want to keep your study site anonymous, don’t put a map on the flyleaf and write a bunch of things about “an area of sandstone outcroppings to the north” or “the village is built at the first rapids on the river” or “here at the edge of the forest” or whatever.
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I feel like half the time I read something anonymized to protect human lifeways and artifacts, exploitable wild species, etc., it contains the equivalent of “here at ‘Penny Station’ at ‘8th Blvd’ and ‘Western 31st St’ in ‘Mew Yonk Sooty’,”.
