Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes

Daniel L. Everett

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Author
Daniel L. Everett
Publish Date
2009-11-03
Book Type
Paperback
Publisher Name
Vintage Departures
Subject
Anthropology
Subtitle
Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
Number of Pages
300
Edition
Illustrated
ISBN-10
0307386120
ISBN-13
9780307386120
SKU
9780307386120

Description

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.