Don't sleep, there are snakes : life and language in the Amazonian jungle
(2008)
Author: Daniel Leonard Everett
Publisher: Vintage Books
Language: en
ISBN: 9780307386120
A linguist offers a thought-provoking account of his experiences and discoveries while living with the Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians living in central Brazil and a people possessing a language that defies accepted linguistic theories and reflects a culture that has no counting system, concept of war, or personal property, and lives entirely in the present.