I’ll give two unique recommendations which I recently read – the first is – Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes by Daniel Everett. It’s a book about an Amazonian tribe whose language doesn’t Although Daniel Everett was a missionary, far from converting the Pirahãs, 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. Everett (Dark Matter of the Mind: The Culturally Articulated Unconscious, 2016, etc.), the dean of arts and sciences at Bentley University, mixes esoteric scholarly inquiry with approachable anecdotal interludes to surmise how humans developed written and spoken language and why it became vital for survival and dominance. As in his previous
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Daniel L. Everett, an esteemed linguist and anthropologist, is the author of the profound and thought-provoking book "Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes." With a career spanning over four decades, Everett has extensively studied the languages and cultures of indigenous tribes in the remote regions of the Amazon rainforest.

Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle. In November 2008, Everett's book on the culture and language of the PirahĂŁ people, and what it was like to live among them, was published in the United Kingdom by Profile Books and in the United States by Pantheon Books. Blackwell's booksellers in the UK selected this as

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