Fieldwork as a state of mind / Larry M. Hyman -- Who shapes the record : the speaker and the linguist / Marianne Mithun -- Places and people : field sites and informants / Gerrit J. Dimmendaal -- Ulwa (Southern Sumu) : the beginnings of a language research project / Ken Hale -- Escaping Eurocentrism : fieldwork as a process of unlearning / David Gil -- Surprises in Sutherland : linguistic variability amidst social uniformity / Nancy C. Dorian -- The role of text collection and elicitation in linguistic fieldwork / Shobhana L. Chelliah -- Monolingual field research / Daniel L. Everett -- The give and take of fieldwork : noun classes and other concerns in Fatick, Senegal / Fiona McLaughlin and Thierno Seydou Sall -- Phonetic fieldwork / Ian Maddieson -- Learning as one goes / Keren Rice -- The last speaker is dead--long live the last speaker! / Nicholas Evans