Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes : Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle

from Scarchin

Overall, this is an interesting book about language and culture. The book focuses on the interesting story of the author's experiences with a tribe in Brazil's Amazon and his attempts to understand their language and the implications of what he learned on the field of linguistics. Unfortunately, ...

from BookConcierge

The subtitle pretty much sums this up: Life and language in the Amazonian Jungle. Everett chronicles his experiences over three decades living among and studying the Piraha, an indigenous tribe. He first went to their villages in 1977, as a Christian missionary and accompanied by his wife and thr...

from Pandababy

I found this book so irritating that I just skimmed that last half of it. I have a life-long interest in the subjects, Amazonia and linguistics and anthropology, however both the poor writing style and author's unaccountable choices of what to tell, what to leave out, overcame my interest in the ...

from delphica

I cannot for the life of me remember why I picked up this book, but I think I saw it referenced in an article or interview somewhere. In this mysterious place where I had seen this book discussed, it was most clearly described as a book about a linguist working with a tribe in the remote Amazon. ...

from Devil_llama

The author writes an interesting account of his years as a missionary in the Amazon jungle, working with a tribe that had been studied and missionized for centuries, but no one had been able to sort out the anomalies of their life and their language. The adventures are interesting, but on the who...