The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia by R. M. W. Dixon, ISBN 0199270678 Oxford University Press, 2004
A culmination of over 20 years' work, this book was awarded the prestigious Leonard Bloomfield Award in 2006 by the Linguistics Society of America for the best book published across all fields of linguistics, worldwide, during the two-year period March 2003 - February 2005.
Although Dixon was unable to attend the ceremony in Albuquerque in January 2006, an acceptance speech (pdf file, 11.7KB) was read on his behalf.