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Don't sleep, there are snakes : life and language in the Amazonian jungle

A 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

eBook, English, ©2008
Pantheon Books, New York, ©2008