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

Author

Don Kulick

Call Number

• 995.3 K9628 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2019.

Physical Description

xii, 274 pages ; 22 cm

Contents

• 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.