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This is one of the best reads that i have read in awhile. This authentic and very interesting book shows the reader a new perspective on human interaction. A good memior teaches us more about ourselves and the world as it shows both warts and awards.
If you become truly bilingual, then you are also bicultural. Extremely interesting as anthropology, and not enough of that. Do not skip over the linguistics - this section is quite readable.
Daniel everett bravely undertakes an emergency transport to a hospital to save his wife and child. Everett#s adventure is a breathtaking read in any respect. Everett is a total badass.
A decisive blow against the arrogance of noam chomsky and his linguistic entourage.
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This authentic and very interesting book shows the reader a new perspective on human interaction
Although quite academic in spots gives a excellent understanding of this tribe and food for thought in our own lives
His complete loss of faith and embrace of what he sees as piraha values is a heart of darkness collapse that exposes many of th... Read More
Its most significant feature is that it lacks recursion something found in every other known language
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Truly surprised me because of the price
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I did not receive it due to not being able to keep up with the postal service and the tech tics so i hope the book is a 5 star rate
Book was delivered on time and as described
Competitiveness
Too many people along with everett believe that we are 34no more nor less than evolved primates
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Not overly technical but engaging and interesting
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Although the movie was lagrely a disappointment to me the most interesting part of the movie were the interviews and comments by daniel everett who talked about his own experiences working as a missionary and linguist to a primitive amazonian tribe called the piraha whose language had never been learned by outsiders before
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This book describes the time spent among an isolated amazonian tribe by a missionary and linguist but it is about much much more
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The author was sent to learn the language of the piraha a tribe that now numbers less than a thousand people so that he could translate the new testament into that language to help convert the pirahas
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But there is much more to the book than adventure in the amazon and discussion of an amazonian people
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In the book he discusses the ways in which the language came to affect his views about language to the point where they made him question noam chomskys theory that grammar is innate
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Essentially the author regards language as much more a product of culture or an interaction with culture than a matter of genetics a revolutionary view
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All in all this book made me think really hard about very big themes despite the fact that it is a relatively easy read
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