TY  - BOOK
AU  - Everett,Daniel Leonard
AU  - Everett, Daniel Leonard
TI  - Don't Sleep, There are Snakes : :life and language in the Amazonian jungle
SN  - 9780307386120
U1  - 305.898 EVE 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York 
PB  - :Vintage Departures
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Pirahá Indians
KW  - Pirahá dialect
KW  - Jungles
KW  -  Groups of people
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -