Ebook: A death in the rainforest: how a language and a way of life came toan end in Papua New Guinea
Author: Kulick Don
- Tags: Ethnology, Ethnology--Papua New Guinea--Gapun, Language and culture, Language and culture--Papua New Guinea--Gapun, Linguistic change, Linguistic change--Papua New Guinea--Gapun, Social change, Social change--Papua New Guinea--Gapun, Taiap language, Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea -- Gapun, Language and culture -- Papua New Guinea -- Gapun, Linguistic change -- Papua New Guinea -- Gapun, Social change -- Papua New Guinea -- Gapun, Papua New Guinea -- Gapun
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
- City: Papua New Guinea;Gapun
- Edition: First edition
- Language: English
- epub
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“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...
“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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