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 / Daniel L. Everett. - New York :Vintage Departures, @2009. - xviii, 300p. ill., map ; 21 cm.
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
Zafaa Books & Distributors :313/56F 49A, Anand Nagar Inderlok Delhi 110035
Social sciences
Pirahá Indians
Pirahá dialect
Jungles
Groups of people
305.898 EVE
Don't Sleep, There are Snakes :life and language in the Amazonian jungle / Daniel L. Everett. - New York :Vintage Departures, @2009. - xviii, 300p. ill., map ; 21 cm.
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
Zafaa Books & Distributors :313/56F 49A, Anand Nagar Inderlok Delhi 110035
Social sciences
Pirahá Indians
Pirahá dialect
Jungles
Groups of people
305.898 EVE
