Don't sleep, there are snakes

By Daniel Leonard Everett

Subjects: Indians of south america, Social life and customs, Pirahá dialect, Brazil, social life and customs, Pirahá Indians, Jungles

Description: 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.