![]() ![]() Written with extraordinary acuity, sensitivity, and openness, it is fascinating from first to last, rich with unparalleled insight into the nature of language, thought, and life itself.From the Hardcover edition. It is also an anthropological investigation, an adventure story, and a riveting memoir of a life profoundly affected by exposure to a different culture. Over three decades, Everett spent a total of seven years among the Piraha, and his account of this lasting sojourn is an engrossing exploration of language that questions modern linguistic theory. ISBN13: 9780307386120 ISBN10: 0307386120 Condition: Standard All Product Details Synopses & Reviews Publisher Comments A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett while he lived with the Piraha, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil. Part passionate memoir, part scientific exploration, a life-changing tale set among a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in Brazil that offers a riveting. It's a little as if Paul Theroux's The Mosquito. Everett became obsessed with their language and its cultural and linguistic implications, and with the remarkable contentment with which they live-so much so that he eventually lost his faith in the God he'd hoped to introduce to them. Sat 19.01 EST T here is no easy way to categorise this story of a Christian missionary's linguistic adventures in the Amazon forest. They have no concept of war or of personal property. Previously, he was Chair of the department of languages, literatures and. What he found was a language that defies all existing linguistic theories and reflects a way of life that evades contemporary understanding: The Piraha have no counting system and no fixed terms for color. Daniel Everett is Dean of Arts and Sciences at Bentley University in Massachusetts. Everett 3.95 4,925 ratings655 reviews A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett while he lived with the Pirah, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil. Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Piraha in 1977-with his wife and three young children-intending to convert them. Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle Daniel L. A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett while he lived with the Piraha, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil. ![]()
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