Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 'Don’t Tell Them We’re Coming!' : Learning to Document Languages with Luise Hercus
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'Luise Hercus’ pioneering and prolific fieldwork and scholarship are wellknown in Australia (see Gara, this volume, Koch & Obata, this volume). This chapter describes her contribution to the author’s understanding of a range of values, principles and methods in conducting language documentation, during two fieldwork-based collaborations during the late 1990s.1 If the chapter reads like a compilation of Luise’s brilliant advice and insights, it is presumably a combination of, on the one hand, Luise’s wisdom and experience, and on the other hand my own ignorance and naivety (hopefully with the former being the greater factor). Looking back, it is clear that I was more than just a beneficiary of these collaborations with Luise; these journeys shaped me' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Language, Land and Song : Studies in Honour of Luise Hercus Peter Austin (editor), Harold Koch (editor), Jane Simpson (editor), Australia : Endangered Languages Publishing , 2017 15316152 2017 anthology criticism biography

    'The contributors to this book highlight current practice in language documentation, drawing on insights from anthropology, digital humanities, education, ethnography, history, linguistics and musicology. The book shows how the value of this multi-faceted documentation has become clear over the last 50 years.' (Publication summary)

    Australia : Endangered Languages Publishing , 2017
    pg. 57-69
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