ISBN:
9780375425028
Language:
English
Pages:
XVIII, 283 S.
,
Ill.
Edition:
1. ed.
DDC:
305.898/9
Keywords:
Summer Institute of Linguistics
;
Alltag, Brauchtum
;
Gesellschaft
;
Pirahá Indians Social life and customs
;
Pirahá dialect Social aspects
;
Jungles
;
Mura-Sprache
;
Brauch
;
Lebensbedingungen
;
Missionar
;
Pirahã
;
Amazon River Region Social life and customs
;
Amazonas-Gebiet
;
Mura-Sprache
;
Pirahã
;
Brauch
;
Lebensbedingungen
;
Amazonas-Gebiet
;
Summer Institute of Linguistics
;
Missionar
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
