Introduction / Paul Newman and Martha Ratliff -- 1. Fieldwork as a state of mind / Larry M. Hyman -- 2. Who shapes the record: the speaker and the linguist / Marianne Mithun -- 3. Places and people: field sites and informants / Gerrit J. Dimmendaal -- 4. Ulwa (Southern Sumu): the beginning for a language research project / Ken Hale -- 5. Escaping Eurocentrism: fieldwork as a process of unlearning / David Gil -- 6. Surprises in Sutherland: linguistic variability amidst social uniformity / Nancy C. Dorian -- 7. The role of text collection and elicitation in linguistic fieldwork / Shobhana L. Chelliah -- 8. Minolingual field research / Daniel L. Everett -- 9. The give and take of fieldwork: noun classes and other concerns in Fatick, Senegal / Fiona McLaughlin and Thierno Seydou Sall -- 10. Phonetic fieldwork / Ian Maddieson -- 11. Learning as one goes / Keren Rice -- 12. The last speaker is died - long live the last speaker! / Nicholas Evans
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First published in Singapore in 2001 by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies