strawberrylane 's review for:

Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle by Daniel L. Everett

4.0

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Absolutely fascinating book. I dinged it a star because the writing is meh through the first section and because his anthropological analysis is often inconsistent with the information he's relating (which sounds bad, but it's not hard to draw your own conclusions from the information). Although there are some weak points in his linguistic section, his arguments are generally persuasive and definitely interesting, especially as they relate to recursion.

Highly recommended for anyone interested in the intersection of anthropology and linguistics or who just wants to read about a culture significantly different from their own.