Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes
Book description
Part passionate memoir, part scientific exploration, a life-changing tale set among a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in Brazil that offers a riveting look into the nature of language, thought, and life itself.
"Immensely interesting and deeply moving.... One of the best books I have read."—Lucy Dodwell, New Scientist
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Over and over as I listened to this book, I found myself exclaiming, No way! Whoa! as the real-life adventure unfolded of living entirely with and coming to know an isolated tiny tribe in the South American rainforest.
What I love especially is that the biggest revelations are how people live, think, and interact, as well as the vast differences between those ways and what I know in my life.
This book blew my mind, and I especially recommend the audiobook version with the author reading it so you can hear him—one of the very outsiders in the world to…
From Lindy's list on shocking view into a world you hadn’t known.
The authors of books about language don’t always have great stories to tell. But Dan Everett does. His riveting account of the language and culture of the Pirahã people of the Amazonian rainforest is astonishing on many levels: the personal (Everett arrived in Brazil as a Protestant missionary, but in losing his faith he gained a new vision of life), the linguistic (Pirahã breaks so many rules, it gives traditional linguists nightmares), the philosophical, even the political. Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes is an exhilarating intellectual adventure.
From Mark's list on language.
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