Don Kulick's book is an anthropological study of language and cultural change among a small group of people living in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea. He examines why the villagers of Gapun are abandoning their vernacular in favor of Tok Pisin, the most widely spoken language in Papua New Guinea, despite their attachment to their own language as a source of identity and as a tie to their lands. He draws on an examination of village language socialization process and on Marshall Sahlins's ideas about structure and event.
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This book is an anthropological study of language and cultural change among the people of Gapun, a small community in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea.
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This review is from: Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction: Socialization, Self and Syncretism in a Papua New Guinean Village (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language) (Paperback)
This book is really fascinating, although a bit outdated. Personally I'd like Kulick to update this thing (if he did I'd give it a 5). This book goes into detail about a particular tribe in New Guinea, from their rituals, religious life, to their interactions (while limited) with outsiders. Mainly it talks about how their society is changing because of their desire to modernize, which, because of their limited interaction with the outside world had (at the time) caused them to have very interesting religious beliefs. Its a classic, and probably one of the best anthropological books I've read thus far.
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Bonika emerges through the doorway of her house, balancing a large wooden plate of food on her head. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
carving buyers, conciliatory feast, bad hed, language socialization patterns, village vernacular, work sago, maternity house, vernacular utterances, naming routines, oratorical speech, distraction routines, dog clan, parrot clan, drink the breast, language shift, funerary feast, contracted laborers, sacred flutes, neighboring languages, matrilineal relative, blame assignment, village parents, youth coordinator, verbal genre, betel palms Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tok Pisin, Papua New Guinea, World War, Innovative Finance, Kruni Maroka, Sepik River, God Himself, Jenkenga Ojenata, Place of Dead Souls, Wongan Community School, Gran Pom, King David, Sister Mariana, Whenever Sake New!
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Bonika emerges through the doorway of her house, balancing a large wooden plate of food on her head. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
carving buyers, conciliatory feast, bad hed, language socialization patterns, village vernacular, work sago, maternity house, vernacular utterances, naming routines, oratorical speech, distraction routines, dog clan, parrot clan, drink the breast, language shift, funerary feast, contracted laborers, sacred flutes, neighboring languages, matrilineal relative, blame assignment, village parents, youth coordinator, verbal genre, betel palms Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tok Pisin, Papua New Guinea, World War, Innovative Finance, Kruni Maroka, Sepik River, God Himself, Jenkenga Ojenata, Place of Dead Souls, Wongan Community School, Gran Pom, King David, Sister Mariana, Whenever Sake New!
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- New Guinea (World's Wild Places) by Roy D. Mackay in Back Matter
- Anthropological Linguistics: An Introduction (Language in Society) by William Foley in Back Matter
- Papua New Guinea by Papua New Guinea. Office of Information. in Back Matter
- Moroccan Dialogues by Kevin Dwyer in Back Matter
- Handbook of Tok Pisin (New Guinea Pidgin) (Pacific linguistics) by S. A. Wurm in Back Matter
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- Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages by Daniel Nettle in Back Matter
- Papua New Guinea: The Struggle for Development (Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia) by John Connell in Back Matter
- Language in Society: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics by Suzanne Romaine in Back Matter
- Dutch Immigrant Women in the United States, 1880-1920 (Statue of Liberty Ellis Island) by Suzanne M. Sinke in Back Matter
- Code-Switching in Conversation: Language, Interaction and Identity by Peter Auer on page 346
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