A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea

Author: Don Kulick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Renowned linguistic anthropologist Don Kulick first went to study the tiny jungle village of Gapun in New Guinea over thirty years ago to document how it was that their native language, Tayap, was dying. But you can't study a language without settling in among the people, understanding how they speak every day, and even more, how they live. This book takes us inside the village as Kulick came to know it,...Read more