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“Perhaps the finest and most profound account of ethnographic fieldwork and discovery that has ever entered the anthropological literature.”―The Wall Street Journal“If you want to experience a profoundly different culture without the exhausting travel (to say nothing of the cost), this is an excellent choice.”―The Washington PostAs 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
