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050 00 $aF2520.1.M9$bE94 2008
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100 1 $aEverett, Daniel Leonard.
245 10 $aDon't sleep, there are snakes :$blife and language in the Amazonian jungle /$cDaniel L. Everett.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPantheon Books,$cc2008.
300 $axviii, 283 p., [8] p. of plates :$bill. (some col.) ;$c25 cm.
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.
505 00 $tDiscovering the world of the Pirahãs --$tThe Amazon --$tThe cost of discipleship --$tSometimes you make mistakes --$tMaterial culture and the absence of ritual --$tFamilies and community --$tNature and the immediacy of experience --$tA teenager named Túkaaga : murder and society --$tLand to live free --$tCaboclos : vignettes of Amazonian Brazilian life --$tChanging channels with Pirahã sounds --$tPirahã words --$tHow much grammar do people need? --$tValues and talking : the partnership between language and culture --$tRecursion : language as a matrioshka doll --$tCrooked heads and straight heads : perspectives on language and truth --$tConverting the missionary.
650 0 $aPirahá Indians$zAmazon River Region$xSocial life and customs.
650 0 $aPirahá dialect$xSocial aspects$zAmazon River Region.
650 0 $aJungles$zAmazon River Region.
651 0 $aAmazon River Region$xSocial life and customs.
988 $a20081113
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