Gombe By Jane Goodall Analysis

Through a Window: My Thirty Years With The Chimpanzees of Gombe by Jane Goodall is Jane Goodall's documentation of the time she spent studying chimpanzees in Africa. Although it mostly talks about the animals, of course, it also talks about her working with the people in Africa and her family. She went to Africa to study the chimpanzees and see how they are alike, and different, from humans. She first began her work in Gombe in 1964 with two research assistants, at what eventually became The Gombe Stream Research Centre at the Gombe Stream National Park (Goodall, 2010, p. 28). As the research centre became more developed, Goodall decided to hire college students from the United States and Europe come to work and help research the chimpanzees.
This meant that even though Goodall might be too busy to follow the animals and study them, the students could do field work all day, and then at night report on and record what they had noticed. To help keep the students safe and for additional help with field work, she also hired Tanzanians. They proved to be very helpful with their knowledge of the land, and they took careful notes for what they noticed in their research. This also benefitted the Tanzanian people, as later in the book Goodall talked about how some of them learned the read and write shortly before coming to work for her. To help them collect as much information as possible, she also had people doing field work do audio recordings during the day.