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

3.0

I finally got around to this after years of telling myself I ought to read it. I mean this is about the tribe that seems to have a language that doesn’t exhibit Chomsky’s deep structures, and that threw the linguistics community into disarray. I was, however, fairly disappointed on the whole. I am not criticizing the work he has done or the conclusions he has come to professionally, but just felt this book was too shallow a document to satisfy my thirst for deeper knowledge of the Pirahã culture or language.