Microphone in the Mud

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University of Hawai'i Press, 2013 - Biography & Autobiography - 228 pages
"Microphone in the Mud is a true adventure story of the eleven months that a 25 year old woman spends in the jungles of the Philippines. When she arrives in Manila, Laura is a graduate student embarking on a journey to document a language spoken by 1500 hunter-gatherers. She has been told about the possible dangers in the Philippines, but the people she meets are friendly and helpful, so she thinks that the warnings are exaggerated. She records her humorous views of the country and the people as she travels to the small town of Santa Ana, locates a boarding house, and searches fro the right Agta language informant. Laura soon finds one and begins to work with him at his camp in the jungle, and the project is going remarkably well until she meets an ominous man who calls himself a Treasure Hunter."--Cover.

About the author (2013)

Laura C. Robinson is a visiting assistant professor of linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and her research interests include documentation of endangered languages and reconstructing linguistic prehistory. In addition to conducting linguistic fieldwork in the northern Philippines and eastern Indonesia, she has also written a grammar of Dupaningan Agta, spoken in the northern Philippines. She is currently working on reconstructing the linguistic prehistory of the languages of the Alor archipelago in eastern Indonesia.

Bibliographic information

TitleMicrophone in the Mud
Issue 6 of Language documentation and conservation special publication
AuthorsLaura C. Robinson, Gary Robinson
PublisherUniversity of Hawai'i Press, 2013
ISBN0985621133, 9780985621131
Length228 pages
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Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
Biography & Autobiography / Women
Social Science / Women's Studies
  
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