kailansunshine '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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A really interesting read about Everett's 30 years in the Amazon with a group of people whose culture and societal structure is drastically different from that of most Westerners. His typical pattern was to offer an observation on some unique aspect of the Pirahãs language, followed by an anecdote illustrating his point. Occasionally, his anecdotes got away from him, or were only tangentially related to the point he was trying to make. Most of his stories and observations are very interesting, although I don't particularly agree with his assertion that the only way to learn a language is to also learn the culture of a people.

OMG anaconda.

Would definitely recommend.