出版社: Algonquin Books
副标题: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea
出版年: 2019-6-18
页数: 288
定价: $27.95
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781616209049
内容简介 · · · · · ·
“An epic narrative in crystalline prose of the poignant death of an ancient language and the enchanted universe it signified in a remote New Guinea village related by a gifted anthropologist who lived there on and off for 30 years as the ghost of a departed villager, sharing its communal virtues and a considerable measure of its suffering. A unique testament of global history a...
“An epic narrative in crystalline prose of the poignant death of an ancient language and the enchanted universe it signified in a remote New Guinea village related by a gifted anthropologist who lived there on and off for 30 years as the ghost of a departed villager, sharing its communal virtues and a considerable measure of its suffering. A unique testament of global history as personal experience: you won't be able to put it down.”
—Marshall Sahlins, Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology Emeritus,The University of Chicago
“Perhaps the finest and most profound account of ethnographic fieldwork and discovery that has ever entered the anthropological literat ure.”
—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 Post
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 particulars and uses of their language—that took full stock of their vanishing culture. This book takes us inside the village as he came to know it, revealing what it is like to live in a difficult-to-get-to village of two hundred people, carved out like a cleft in the middle of a tropical rainforest. But A Death in the Rainforest is also an illuminating look at the impact of Western culture on the farthest reaches of the globe and the story of why this anthropologist realized finally that he had to give up his study of this language and this village.
An engaging, deeply perceptive, and brilliant interrogation of what it means to study a culture, A Death in the Rainforest takes readers into a world that endures in the face of massive changes, one that is on the verge of disappearing forever.
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作者简介 · · · · · ·
Don Kulick is the author or editor of more than a dozen books on topics that range from the lives of transgender prostitutes in Brazil to the anthropology of fat. He has conducted extensive anthropological fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, Brazil, and Scandinavia. He is the recipient of numerous grants and honors, including an NEH Fellowship, an A. W. Mellon Foundation Guest Profe...
Don Kulick is the author or editor of more than a dozen books on topics that range from the lives of transgender prostitutes in Brazil to the anthropology of fat. He has conducted extensive anthropological fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, Brazil, and Scandinavia. He is the recipient of numerous grants and honors, including an NEH Fellowship, an A. W. Mellon Foundation Guest Professorship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
He is currently Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology at Uppsala University in Sweden, where he directs the research program Engaging Vulnerability.
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A Death in the Rainforest的书评 · · · · · · ( 全部 28 条 )
逐渐凋零的过去和当下
解除自以为是的优越感
不是我们摒弃了语言,而是语言——摒弃了我们
这篇书评可能有关键情节透露
对于一门语言而言,它的消亡往往是伴随着另一门语言的出现。《雨林里的消亡》中,巴布亚新几内亚雨林深处小村庄中,泰雅博语的直接危及来自于当地人们对于皮金语的使用。这是一门随着殖民主义和资本主义而来的语言,最早由白人种植园中不同地区、种族的人群为了方便交流而创造... (展开)我想在未来很长时间里,当我想在网络上骂人又担心被屏蔽时,我都会用“kaikai kan”作为代替
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1、 人们在学习一门新的语言时,首先学会的总是那些脏话。这个预言在我身上再次应验了。 “去来回翻你的包皮吧!”——多有画面感的脏话,你很难控制住自己不去想象那样一个场面。 “你妈生你的时候是从屁眼里拉出来的,还带了一泡屎,这个时候天打雷劈!”——天打雷劈简直太... (展开)> 更多书评 28篇
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4 有用 沙拉勺子 2019-07-07 00:12:30
很好的阅读体验。我是正好听到一个podcast推荐新书的,对题材感兴趣就开始看了。作者可能是把真正的学术类的信息都写在另一本学术类的著作里了,这本主要是一个narrative non fiction,虽然带着幽默和调侃描述了作者在巴布新几内亚的一个近乎原始的村落里的生活,但在结束的几章彻底打翻了浪漫主义想法(我就是已经呆够了),还有一些思考也是我读书过程中想的一些事情。写食物的那段减肥时候的看会很... 很好的阅读体验。我是正好听到一个podcast推荐新书的,对题材感兴趣就开始看了。作者可能是把真正的学术类的信息都写在另一本学术类的著作里了,这本主要是一个narrative non fiction,虽然带着幽默和调侃描述了作者在巴布新几内亚的一个近乎原始的村落里的生活,但在结束的几章彻底打翻了浪漫主义想法(我就是已经呆够了),还有一些思考也是我读书过程中想的一些事情。写食物的那段减肥时候的看会很好....他们认为人死了就会上天堂变白人的想法反复提及,令人啧啧。 (展开)
0 有用 Logi_fishercat 2022-05-31 15:29:44
Interesting
0 有用 嘘八百の徒然 2022-12-13 22:10:07 北京
读中文版的时候找来用于在语料和译文上做对比的。非常值得一读。
0 有用 🐙\_(ツ)_/¯🦖 2022-12-14 20:35:02 上海
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0 有用 TinOO 2022-06-21 21:38:05
我对人类学真的挺喜欢的,作者在大学时期因为教授的推荐,开始了横跨十几年巴布亚新几内亚的语言研究,为什么古老的语言会消失?新的语言如何一步步取代古老的语言……这种研究充满了人道精神。
0 有用 醉鬼盼安生 2023-08-27 15:12:09 美国
出于从来没读过关于语言如何消亡的书而产生的好奇心态读的这本书 看完之后 却发现好像tayap在gapun village在papua new guinea动荡的历史长河中黯然消逝似乎就是必然 抛开天灾人祸(大多数是人祸比如战争和文化殖民)作者介绍的关于villagers in gapun的生活日常还蛮有趣的 比如有一篇作者花了20多页讲述villagers的饮食 比如sago jelly等 全程就... 出于从来没读过关于语言如何消亡的书而产生的好奇心态读的这本书 看完之后 却发现好像tayap在gapun village在papua new guinea动荡的历史长河中黯然消逝似乎就是必然 抛开天灾人祸(大多数是人祸比如战争和文化殖民)作者介绍的关于villagers in gapun的生活日常还蛮有趣的 比如有一篇作者花了20多页讲述villagers的饮食 比如sago jelly等 全程就是一种虽然不理解但尊重的感觉 还有一章是关于记录年轻villagers的求爱信 通过在语言形式上的灵活运用 可以感觉出villagers的语言天赋 全篇看下来them和us其实没有什么不同 关于tayap最大的惊喜是language可能对于我们而已代表一个共同身份 但于他们是彰显自我的标志 (展开)
0 有用 Flora 2023-04-04 22:48:27 新加坡
文笔一般,丛林遭劫最好看
0 有用 🐙\_(ツ)_/¯🦖 2022-12-14 20:35:02 上海
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0 有用 嘘八百の徒然 2022-12-13 22:10:07 北京
读中文版的时候找来用于在语料和译文上做对比的。非常值得一读。
1 有用 Hustle 2022-06-29 19:31:05
非常喜欢!作者的专业精神,人道主义精神,还有幽默文采;一个与世隔绝的热带雨林中的村落,里面的男女老少,琐碎前后,有猎奇,有增识。人类需要多一些像Don这样的researcher