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Can I read A Death in the Rainforest on EtoBox?
A Death in the Rainforest by Don Kulick is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Death in the Rainforest about?
One of Time’s 32 Books You Need to Read This Summer“A profoundly human story about a seemingly exotic and strange place that really isn't so strange at all.” —Carl Hoffman, author of The Last Wild Men of Borneo As a young anthropologist, Don Kulick went to the tiny village of Gapun in New Guinea to document the death of the native language, Tayap. He arrived knowing that you can’t study a language without understanding the daily lives of the people who speak it: how they talk to their children, how they argue, how they gossip, how they joke. Over the course of thirty years, he returned again and again to document Tayap before it disappeared entirely, and he found himself inexorably drawn into their world, and implicated in their destiny. Kulick wanted to tell the story of Gapuners—one that went beyond the...
Who reads A Death in the Rainforest?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Don Kulick
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Government & Politics, Social_sciences