Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle

Name: Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
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ISBN: 9780307386120

ISBN-10: 0307386120

ISBN-13: 9780307386120

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Authors: Daniel L. Everett

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Book details

List price: $25.99
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/3/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.94" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.638

Daniel L. Everett is Dean of Arts and Sciences at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts.



Some Notes on the Pirahï¿½ Language as Used in This Book


Preface


Prologue



Life



Discovering the World of the Pirahï¿½s



The Amazon



he 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 Tï¿½kaaga: Murder and Society



Land to Live Free



Caboclos: Vignettes of Amazonian Brazilian Life



Language



Changing Channels with Pirahï¿½ Sounds



Pirahï¿½ 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



Conclusion



Converting the Missionary


Epilogue: Why Care about Other Cultures and Languages?


Acknowledgments


Index