Don't sleep, there are snakes
Subtitle: life and language in the Amazonian jungle
By: Daniel L. Everett.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780375425028
Subjects: Pirahá Indians -- Amazon River Region -- Social life and customs; Pirahá dialect -- Social aspects -- Amazon River Region; Jungles -- Amazon River Region; Amazon River Region -- Social life and customs
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Discovering the world of the Pirahás; title: The Amazon; title: The cost of discipleship; title: Sometimes you make mistakes; title: Material culture and the absence of ritual; title: Families and community; title: Nature and the immediacy of experience; title: A teenager named Túkaaga : murder and society; title: Land to live free; title: Caboclos : vignettes of Amazonian Brazilian life; title: Changing channels with Pirahã sounds; title: Pirahá words; title: How much grammar do people need?; title: Values and talking : the partnership between language and culture; title: Recursion : language as a matrioshka doll; title: Crooked heads and straight heads : perspectives on language and truth; title: Converting the missionary.