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A death in the rainforest : how a language and a way of life came to an end in Papua New Guinea  Cover Image Book Book

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

Kulick, Don, (author.).

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  • ISBN: 9781616209049
  • ISBN: 1616209046
  • Physical Description: xii, 274 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2019.

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Formatted Contents Note:
The air we breathe -- A village in the swamp -- First catch your teacher -- Moses's plan -- The burden of giving -- Dining in Gapun -- "I'm getting out of here" -- Over the rainbow -- The poetics of swearing -- Matters of the liver -- Young people's Tayap-- Living dangerously -- Who killed Monei? -- Luke writes a letter -- Going to hell -- What actually dies when a language dies? -- The end.
Subject: Ethnology > Papua New Guinea > Gapun.
Language and culture > Papua New Guinea > Gapun.
Taiap language.
Linguistic change > Papua New Guinea > Gapun.
Social change > Papua New Guinea > Gapun.

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