[Lingtyp] Outsourcing fieldwork to indigenous communities

Cat Butz Cat.Butz at hhu.de
Tue Jan 13 16:11:53 UTC 2026


Hello everyone,

I hope you're all doing well. Could you please direct me to resources 
talking about benefits and drawbacks of outsourcing linguistic fieldwork 
to indigenous communities (i.e., paying members of indigenous 
communities to do fieldwork in their own or adjacent communities)? If 
anyone wants to directly tell me about their experience doing this, that 
also counts as a resource. Thank you.

Warmest,
-- 
Cat Butz (she)
HHU Düsseldorf
General Linguistics


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