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001 2008016306
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008 080411s2008 nyuafg 000 0deng
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050 00 $aF2520.1.M9$bE94 2008
082 00 $a305.898/9$222
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 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.
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.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0903/2008016306.html