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A death in the rainforest [electronic resource] : how a language and a way of life came to an end in Papua New Guinea / by Don Kulick.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (xii, 274 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781616209476
  • 161620947X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 305.8009957/5 23
LOC classification:
  • GN671.N5 K845 2019
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover; Also by Don Kulick; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; 1: THE AIR WE BREATHE; 2: A VILLAGE IN THE SWAMP; 3: FIRST CATCH YOUR TEACHER; 4: MOSES'S PLAN; 5: THE BURDEN OF GIVING; 6: DINING IN GAPUN; 7: ""I'M GETTING OUT OF HERE''; 8: OVER THE RAINBOW; 9: THE POETICS OF SWEARING; 10: MATTERS OF THE LIVER; 11: YOUNG PEOPLE'S TAYAP; 12: LIVING DANGEROUSLY; 13: WHO KILLED MONEI?; 14: LUKE WRITES A LETTER; 15: GOING TO HELL; 16: WHAT ACTUALLY DIES WHEN A LANGUAGE DIES?; 17: THE END; Postscript: After the End; A Note About the Names in This Book; Acknowledgments; Dedication
Summary: Don Kulick went to Papua New Guinea to understand why a language was dying. But that was just the beginning of what he learned.
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Cover; Also by Don Kulick; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; 1: THE AIR WE BREATHE; 2: A VILLAGE IN THE SWAMP; 3: FIRST CATCH YOUR TEACHER; 4: MOSES'S PLAN; 5: THE BURDEN OF GIVING; 6: DINING IN GAPUN; 7: ""I'M GETTING OUT OF HERE''; 8: OVER THE RAINBOW; 9: THE POETICS OF SWEARING; 10: MATTERS OF THE LIVER; 11: YOUNG PEOPLE'S TAYAP; 12: LIVING DANGEROUSLY; 13: WHO KILLED MONEI?; 14: LUKE WRITES A LETTER; 15: GOING TO HELL; 16: WHAT ACTUALLY DIES WHEN A LANGUAGE DIES?; 17: THE END; Postscript: After the End; A Note About the Names in This Book; Acknowledgments; Dedication

Don Kulick went to Papua New Guinea to understand why a language was dying. But that was just the beginning of what he learned.