TY - BOOK ID - 149833661 TI - Don't sleep, there are snakes : life and language in the Amazonian jungle PY - 2008 SN - 0307377792 1299017150 PB - New York : Pantheon Books, DB - UniCat KW - Pirahá Indians KW - Pirahá dialect KW - Jungles KW - Pirahâa Indians KW - Pirahâa dialect KW - Jungles KW - Social life and customs. KW - Social aspects KW - Social life and customs KW - Social aspects KW - Amazon River Region KW - Social life and customs. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:149833661 AB - 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. ER -