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Don't sleep, there are snakes : life and language in the Amazonian jungle
- Title
- Don't sleep, there are snakes : life and language in the Amazonian jungle / Daniel L. Everett.
- Author
- Everett, Daniel L. (Daniel Leonard)
- Publication
- New York : Pantheon Books, c2008.
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Details
- Description
- xviii, 283 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 25 cm.
- Summary
- A linguist offers a thought-provoking account of his experiences and discoveries while living with the Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians living in central Brazil and a people possessing a language that defies accepted linguistic theories and reflects a culture that has no counting system, concept of war, or personal property, and lives entirely in the present.
- Subjects
- Contents
- Discovering the world of the Pirahãs -- The Amazon -- The cost of discipleship -- Sometimes you make mistakes -- Material culture and the absence of ritual -- Families and community -- Nature and the immediacy of experience -- A teenager named Túkaaga : murder and society -- Land to live free -- Caboclos : vignettes of Amazonian Brazilian life -- Changing channels with Pirahã sounds -- Pirahã words -- How much grammar do people need? -- Values and talking : the partnership between language and culture -- Recursion : language as a matrioshka doll -- Crooked heads and straight heads : perspectives on language and truth -- Converting the missionary.
- Call Number
- JGE 08-443
- ISBN
- 9780375425028
- 0375425020
- LCCN
- 2008016306
- OCLC
- 212855153
- vendorOCN212855153
- Author
- Everett, Daniel L. (Daniel Leonard)
- Title
- Don't sleep, there are snakes : life and language in the Amazonian jungle / Daniel L. Everett.
- Imprint
- New York : Pantheon Books, c2008.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Research Call Number
- JGE 08-443