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  Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Paperback) By (author) Daniel Everett

  

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  Short Description for Don't Sleep, There are SnakesAlthough the author was a missionary, far from converting the Pirahas, they converted him. This title shows the slow, meticulous steps by which he gradually mastered their language and his gradual realisation that its unusual nature closely reflected its speakers' startlingly original perceptions of the world.
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  • Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
  • Published: 06 August 2009
  • Format: Paperback 336 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: General | Memoirs | Language: Reference & General | Linguistics | Ethnic Studies | Indigenous Peoples
  • ISBN 13: 9781846680403 ISBN 10: 1846680409
  • Sales rank: 25,338

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Full description for Don't Sleep, There are Snakes

• Although Daniel Everett was a missionary, far from converting the Pirahas, they converted him. He shows the slow, meticulous steps by which he gradually mastered their language and his gradual realisation that its unusual nature closely reflected its speakers' startlingly original perceptions of the world. He describes how he began to realise that his discoveries about the Piraha language opened up a new way of understanding how language works in our minds and in our lives, and that this way was utterly at odds with Noam Chomsky's universally accepted linguistic theories. The perils of passionate academic opposition were then swiftly conjoined to those of the Amazon in a debate whose outcome has yet to be won. Adventure, personal enlightenment and the makings of a scientific revolution proceed together in this vivid, funny and moving book.