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aar505n 's review for:
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
by Daniel L. Everett
While reading this I found myself oscillating between being fascinated and being frustrated.
It was eye-opening reading Everett’s account and stories of his time with the Pirahá people. Their world view and language is genuinely intriguing and thought-provoking when compared to my own.
Some of the linguistic discussion did go over my head and at times very academic and wordy – not that it wasn’t accessible but just you kind of had to focus for all the talk about recursive and Chomsky universal grammar theory – although still all very interesting!
It was eye-opening reading Everett’s account and stories of his time with the Pirahá people. Their world view and language is genuinely intriguing and thought-provoking when compared to my own.
Some of the linguistic discussion did go over my head and at times very academic and wordy – not that it wasn’t accessible but just you kind of had to focus for all the talk about recursive and Chomsky universal grammar theory – although still all very interesting!