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

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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

(2019)

By: Kulick, Don

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:

305.800995/KULICK,D

Availability

Locations	Call Number	Status
Adult Nonfiction	305.800995/KULICK,D	Available

Details

PUBLISHED

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

EDITION

First edition

DESCRIPTION

xii, 274 pages ; 22 cm

ISBN/ISSN

9781616209049, 1616209046 :, 9781616209049 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LANGUAGE

English

NOTES

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