Books written by Don Kulick

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  A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New...

  “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 ...

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  Language and Sexuality

  This lively and accessible textbook provides a clear introduction to the relationship between language and sexuality.

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  Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture Among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes

  In this dramatic and compelling narrative, anthropologist Don Kulick follows the lives of a group of transgendered prostitutes (called travestis in Portuguese) in the Brazilian city Salvador.

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  A Grammar and Dictionary of Tayap: The Life and Death of a Papuan Language

  With a dwindling number of speakers, Tayap is severely endangered. This book is a full grammatical description of Tayap, as well as a trilingual Tayap-English-Tok Pisin dictionary.

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  Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction: Socialization, Self and Syncretism in a Papua New Guinean Village

  This book, first published in 1992, 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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  Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes

  In this dramatic and compelling narrative, anthropologist Don Kulick follows the lives of a group of transgendered prostitutes (called travestis in Portuguese) in the Brazilian city Salvador.

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  Fat: The Anthropology of an Obsession

  With more than one billion overweight adults in the world today, obesity has become an epidemic. But fat is not as straightforward-or even as uni-versally damned-as one might think.