Foreword by Wade Davis; Preface; Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: What’s a linguist do, anyway?, What’s linguistic fieldwork?
2 Fieldwork adventure
3 Discoveries
4 Finding language consultants and working with them
5 Perils, parasites, politics, and violence
6 Eating, drinking, and matters of health
7 Surviving fieldwork: Travel and living in the Field
8 What next?: What is needed in endangered language research?
References; Index