Microphone in the Mud (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780985621131)

Microphone in the mud tells the true story of a young woman as she battles armed terrorists, a kidnapper, malaria, a tsunami, and dial-up Internet while documenting endangered languages spoken by hunter-gatherers in the jungles of the Philippines.

Author: Gary Robinson, Laura C. Robinson
ISBN-10: 0985621133
ISBN-13: 9780985621131
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Language: English
Published: 07/16/2013
Pages: 228
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.48d

About the Author
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.