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028			_a:Zafaa Books & Distributors _b:313/56F 49A, Anand Nagar Inderlok Delhi 110035 _c:ZBD0172 _d:29/05/2022
082			_a305.898 EVE
100	1		_aEverett, Daniel Leonard.
245	1	0	_aDon't Sleep, There are Snakes _b:life and language in the Amazonian jungle _c/ Daniel L. Everett.
260			_aNew York _b:Vintage Departures, _c@2009.
300			_axviii, 300p. _bill., map ; _c21 cm.
365			_b1099
505	0		_aDiscovering 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.
520			_aA 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.
650		0	_aSocial sciences
650		0	_aPirahá Indians
650		0	_aPirahá dialect
650		0	_aJungles
650		0	_a Groups of people
700			_aEverett, Daniel Leonard
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