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Sanine Kuegler is a German author who has led a fascinating life. Sabine was born in Nepal (1972). That was unusual enough for a German girl, but what followed really set her apart. When she was 7 years old. Her parnts who were anthropologists/inguists took her and her two siblings to live with the isolated Fayu trible in Papua, New Guinea (1977). New Guinea at the time of World War II was one if not the most isolated places on earth. The war brought the first extensive contct with the outside world, although most of gthe fighting was along the coast. Many tribes in the interior were still largely isolated. And this was where the Kuegler family headed. It was a newly discovered tribe of 400 people. They were still unaffected by Europens. They hunted with bow and arrow, ate snakes, insects and worms, and still practiced inter-tribal warfare and revenge killings. [Kuegler] Her mother had nursing skills which helped them fit in. No common New Guinea language developed over the millennia of human habitation. Many tribes have their own distinct language which is why Papua is of special interest to linguists. And it was not a short stay. Sabine spent most of the rest of her childhood there--10 years. She did not emerge from the jungle until she was 17 years old and arrived at a Swiss boarding school (1989). That must have been some transition. Her first book has been criticised on a range of typical woke issues. Her subsequent book addressed some of them, in part because her parents had left Papua and no longer had to be concernrd about Indonesian retaliation. She sees herself as spokesperson for the endangered Fayu.
Kuegler, Sabine. Dschungelkind/Jungle Child (2005).
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