| Summary: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Eleven distinguished linguists reflect on their career-spanning linguistic fieldwork. Over decades, each has repeatedly stood up to physical, intellectual, interpersonal, intercultural, and sometimes political challenges in the pursuit of scientific knowledge. These scholar-explorers have enlightened the world to the inner workings of languages in remote communities of Africa (West, East, and South), Amazonia, the Arctic, Australia, the Caucasus, Oceania, Siberia, and East Asia. They report some linguistic eureka moments, but also discuss cultural missteps, illness, and the other challenges of pursuing linguistic data in extreme circumstances. They write passionately about language death and their responsibilities to speech communities. The stories included here - the stuff of departmental and family legends - are published publicly for the first time. Intro; Word Hunters; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; 1. Word hunters; Sarvasy; Forker; References; 2. The magic of names; 1. The Amazonian names; 1.1 The Tariana of the VaupAs River Basin; 1.2 The naming systems; 2. The Manambu of the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea; 2.1 A multitude of names; 2.2 The Manambu clans and naming system; 2.3 The totems, and the terms of address; 3. New language, new name; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; References; 3. Historical linguistics in the raw; 1. Introduction; 2. Sarawak; 3. Manus; 4. Taiwan; 5. Fieldwork a#x80;#x98;at homea#x80;#x99. 6. ConclusionReferences; 4. Sharing thoughts, concepts and experiences; 1. Introduction; 2. Languages of former hunter-gatherers in Southern Africa; 3. Arrival at the African continent; 4. Plants and their use in East Africa; 5. Languages spoken on islands in lakes of Ethiopia; 6. A NC#x80;uu reader for the C#x82;Khomani community; 7. A Luruuli-Lunyala dictionary project in Central Uganda; 8. Contextualizing a#x80;#x9C;fieldworka#x80;#x9D; on African languages; References; 5. Forty-plus years before the mast; 1. ...
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