Our sister blogger (perhaps ‘aunt’ since she’s been blogging much longer!) Claire Bowern has started to post sections of her draft manual on fieldwork on her blog. First off are some gripping posts on those inevitable initial questions: “What recording equipment should I get?” The answers change each year – but the categories Claire uses to classify equipment are relevant at any time: fidelity, unobtrusiveness, power type and demand, portability, durability, archivability of recordings, and expense of machine and medium. Check out her summary and earlier posts.
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Hey Jane, I thought it was worth mentioning that for some reason your links to Claire’s blog aren’t working for me in this post. For those similarly bamboozled, the audio summary is at:
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~bowern/audio_summary.pdf
and the blog address is:
http://anggarrgoon.org (or link to Anggarrgoon from the linguistics blogs list in the sidebar of this site.
Thanks Linda. Turns out that Safari is more forgiving about link format than other browsers such as Netscape. I hope the links work now!
Hi Jane, what’s your skin? May well be that I’m your aunt …
My skin(=subsection name) is Nangali – if you can do the translation from Warumungu/Warlpiri/Arrernte skins to the Arnhem Land system, that’s great! I’ve never mastered it….
On the sound recording side of things – there’s been a lot of discussion of this on the Resource network for Linguistic Diversity list. Also check out Bill Poser’s notes at:
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phonetics/FieldRecordingAdvice.html