Although Daniel Everett was a missionary, far from converting the Pirahãs, they converted him. He shows the slow, meticulous steps by which he gradually mastered their language and his gradual realisation that its unusual nature closely reflected its speakers' startlingly original perceptions of the world.
I just finished reading Don't sleep there are snakes about Daniel Everett's time with the Pirahã tribe in the Amazon. I read a few articles of his and a rebuttal from a different group. I read a few articles of his and a rebuttal from a different group.
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Daniel Everett went to the Amazon as a Christian missionary, but ended up spending decades living with the Piraha tribe. This book, his account of those decades with the remote tribe, is riveting
Daniel L. Everett, a linguist who also serves as the Dean of Arts and Sciences at Bentley University, introduced his newest book and discussed the origins of language to a crowd of more than 200
Daniel Everett. On this date in 1951, linguist Daniel Everett was born in Holtville, Calif., to a working-class family. A voracious reader, Everett became interested in linguistics after viewing "My Fair Lady" as a high schooler. He met Keren Graham, the daughter of Christian missionaries, in high school and, at 17, became a born-again
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