It takes the average reader 5 hours and 44 minutes to read The Korowai of Irian Jaya by Gerrit J. van Enk
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Irian Jaya is the official name of the western half of New Guinea, a province of Indonesia since the 1960s. Its inhabitants are generally untouched by civilization, and most of their hundreds of native languages and cultures remain unstudied. Van Enk and de Vries gained access to one of the most isolated parts of Irian Jaya in order to study the Korowai, a tribe in southern Irian Jaya. The Korowai still use stone tools, live in tree-houses, and have no knowledge of the outside world. Van Enk and de Vries provide the first study of the Korowai language and culture. They reproduce oral texts...
The Korowai of Irian Jaya by Gerrit J. van Enk is 336 pages long, and a total of 86,016 words.
This makes it 113% the length of the average book. It also has 105% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 50 minutes to read The Korowai of Irian Jaya aloud.
The Korowai of Irian Jaya is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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