An edition of Don't sleep, there are snakes
(2009)
Don't sleep, there are snakes
life and language in the Amazonian jungle
1st Vintage Departures ed.
by Daniel Leonard Everett
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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.
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Don't sleep, there are snakes: life and language in the Amazonian jungle
2009, Vintage Departures
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Table of 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.
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Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, c2008.
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