Don't sleep, there are snakes : life and language in the Amazonian jungle /
Everett, Daniel Leonard.
Don't sleep, there are snakes : life and language in the Amazonian jungle / Do not sleep, there are snakes Daniel L. Everett. - 1st Vintage Departures ed. - New York : Vintage Departures, 2009. - xviii, 300 pages : illustrations., map ; 21 cm.
Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, c2008.
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.
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.
9780307386120 (pbk.)
2010513596
Pirahá Indians--Social life and customs.--Amazon River Region
Pirahá dialect--Social aspects--Amazon River Region.
Jungles--Amazon River Region.
Amazon River Region--Social life and customs.
F2520.1.M9 / E94 2009
Don't sleep, there are snakes : life and language in the Amazonian jungle / Do not sleep, there are snakes Daniel L. Everett. - 1st Vintage Departures ed. - New York : Vintage Departures, 2009. - xviii, 300 pages : illustrations., map ; 21 cm.
Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, c2008.
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.
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.
9780307386120 (pbk.)
2010513596
Pirahá Indians--Social life and customs.--Amazon River Region
Pirahá dialect--Social aspects--Amazon River Region.
Jungles--Amazon River Region.
Amazon River Region--Social life and customs.
F2520.1.M9 / E94 2009