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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
by Daniel L. Everett
2025 reads: 8/300
this book details the author’s time with the pirahã people, including aspects of their unique language. when everett first arrived, his goal as a christian missionary was to translate the new testament into the pirahã language and convert them to christianity. what he found instead was a language that defied many of the “rules” of language we thought were universal. this book was recommended to me by a friend, and i’m so grateful for that because it would not have been on my radar otherwise. i have an interest in linguistics, and this taught me so much about the field. i recommend it to anyone else with a similar interest!
this book details the author’s time with the pirahã people, including aspects of their unique language. when everett first arrived, his goal as a christian missionary was to translate the new testament into the pirahã language and convert them to christianity. what he found instead was a language that defied many of the “rules” of language we thought were universal. this book was recommended to me by a friend, and i’m so grateful for that because it would not have been on my radar otherwise. i have an interest in linguistics, and this taught me so much about the field. i recommend it to anyone else with a similar interest!