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 beginnings of 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. Monolingual 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 dead - long live the last speaker! Nicholas Evans.