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andrewhall 's review for:
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
by Daniel L. Everett
Good mixture of his story of his experience living with the Pirahã in the Amazon, the anthropological lessons he learns there, and the linguistic theories that he develops from that experience. The book drags in the second half--his explanation of the linguistic theory and his challenge to the Chomsky orthodoxy is not easy to make interesting, but he makes a good effort. His discussion of the Pirahã as one of the happiest people on earth is very interesting, but seems male-centric, he gives some hints that the women don't have it so well.