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A death in the rainforest: how a language and a way of life came toan end in Papua New Guinea

By Don , Kulick

Book information

Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Year
2019
ISBN
9781616209476, 9781616209049, 1616209046, 161620947X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2275073 bytes)
Edition
First edition
Pages
289 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Ethnology;Ethnology--Papua New Guinea--Gapun;Langu

Description

One of Time’s 32 Books You Need to Read This Summer“A profoundly human story about a seemingly exotic and strange place that really isn't so strange at all.” —Carl Hoffman, author of The Last Wild Men of Borneo As a young anthropologist, Don Kulick went to the tiny village of Gapun in New Guinea to document the death of the native language, Tayap. He arrived knowing that you can’t study a language without understanding the daily lives of the people who speak it: how they talk to their children, how they argue, how they gossip, how they joke. Over the course of thirty years, he returned again and again to document Tayap before it disappeared entirely, and he found himself inexorably drawn into their world, and implicated in their destiny. Kulick wanted to tell the story of Gapuners—one that went beyond the...

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