Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian JungleKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 11/11/2008 - 304 páginas 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. |
Índice
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 | |
Vignettes of Amazonian Brazilian Life | |
Changing Channels with Pirahã Sounds | |
Pirahã Words | |
How Much Grammar Do People Need? | |
The Partnership between Language | |
Language as a Matrioshka Doll | |
Perspectives on Language | |
Converting the Missionary | |
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