Chapter published in:
Word Hunters: Field linguists on fieldwork
Edited by Hannah Sarvasy and Diana Forker
[Studies in Language Companion Series 194] 2018
► pp. 9–27

The magic of names

A fieldworker’s perspective

| James Cook University
Published online: 22 February 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.194.02aik
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