Taking down tongues: Explorations in the epistemic culture of language documentation and conservation

The materials archived here are part of the 'Taking down tongues: Explorations in the epistemic culture of language documentation and conservation' fieldwork project (sponsored by the Thomas J. Watson Foundation). This project in linguistic anthropology aims to address the following: Does language documentation and conservation actually follow through on the promise of bringing meaningful benefits to the communities they purport to serve? This dataset includes ethnographic interviews, fieldnotes, linguistic data, and various forms of visual ethnography, collected between July 2013-August 2014, in the Asia-Pacific region (namely, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, and French Polynesia).