TY - BOOK ID - 138990978 TI - Don't sleep, there are snakes : life and language in the Amazonian jungle. PY - 2008 SN - 9780375425028 PB - New York Pantheon Books DB - UniCat KW - Jungles KW - Pirahá dialect KW - Pirahá Indians KW - Social aspects KW - Social life and customs KW - Amazon River Region KW - Social life and customs. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138990978 AB - A linguist offers a thought-provoking account of his experiences and discoveries while living with the Piraha, 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. ER -