Don T Sleep There Are Snakes
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Don T Sleep There Are Snakes
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Author : Daniel Everett
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2010-07-09
Don T Sleep There Are Snakes written by Daniel Everett and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-09 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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. Everett describes how he began to realise that his discoveries about the Pirahã language opened up a new way of understanding how language works in our minds and in our lives, and that this way was utterly at odds with Noam Chomsky's universally accepted linguistic theories. The perils of passionate academic opposition were then swiftly conjoined to those of the Amazon in a debate whose outcome has yet to be won. Everett's views are most recently discussed in Tom Wolfe's bestselling The Kingdom of Speech. Adventure, personal enlightenment and the makings of a scientific revolution proceed together in this vivid, funny and moving book.
Language
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Author : Daniel L. Everett
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-03-13
Language written by Daniel L. Everett and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-13 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
A bold and provocative study that presents language not as an innate component of the brain—as most linguists do—but as an essential tool unique to each culture worldwide. For years, the prevailing opinion among academics has been that language is embedded in our genes, existing as an innate and instinctual part of us. But linguist Daniel Everett argues that, like other tools, language was invented by humans and can be reinvented or lost. He shows how the evolution of different language forms—that is, different grammar—reflects how language is influenced by human societies and experiences, and how it expresses their great variety. For example, the Amazonian Pirahã put words together in ways that violate our long-held under-standing of how language works, and Pirahã grammar expresses complex ideas very differently than English grammar does. Drawing on the Wari’ language of Brazil, Everett explains that speakers of all languages, in constructing their stories, omit things that all members of the culture understand. In addition, Everett discusses how some cultures can get by without words for numbers or counting, without verbs for “to say” or “to give,” illustrating how the very nature of what’s important in a language is culturally determined. Combining anthropology, primatology, computer science, philosophy, linguistics, psychology, and his own pioneering—and adventurous—research with the Amazonian Pirahã, and using insights from many different languages and cultures, Everett gives us an unprecedented elucidation of this society-defined nature of language. In doing so, he also gives us a new understanding of how we think and who we are.
Don T Sleep There Are Snakes
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Author : Daniel L. Everett
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2008-11-11
Don T Sleep There Are Snakes written by Daniel L. Everett and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-11 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Part passionate memoir, part scientific exploration, a life-changing tale set among a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in Brazil that offers a riveting look into the nature of language, thought, and life itself. "Immensely interesting and deeply moving.... One of the best books I have read."—Lucy Dodwell, New Scientist A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett while he lived with the Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil. Daniel Everett arrived among the Pirahã with his wife and three young children hoping to convert the tribe to Christianity. Everett quickly became obsessed with their language and its cultural and linguistic implications. The Pirahã have no counting system, no fixed terms for color, no concept of war, and no personal property. Everett was so impressed with their peaceful way of life that he eventually lost faith in the God he'd hoped to introduce to them, and instead devoted his life to the science of linguistics.
The Kingdom Of Speech
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Author : Tom Wolfe
language : en
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Release Date : 2015-09-08
The Kingdom Of Speech written by Tom Wolfe and has been published by Hachette+ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-08 with Social Science categories.
The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong. Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech -- not evolution -- is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements. From Alfred Russel Wallace, the Englishman who beat Darwin to the theory of natural selection but later renounced it, and through the controversial work of modern-day anthropologist Daniel Everett, who defies the current wisdom that language is hard-wired in humans, Wolfe examines the solemn, long-faced, laugh-out-loud zig-zags of Darwinism, old and Neo, and finds it irrelevant here in the Kingdom of Speech.
Dark Matter Of The Mind
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Author : Daniel L. Everett
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2017-11-06
Dark Matter Of The Mind written by Daniel L. Everett and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-06 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Is it in our nature to be altruistic, or evil, to make art, use tools, or create language? Is it in our nature to think in any particular way? For Daniel L. Everett, the answer is a resounding no: it isn’t in our nature to do any of these things because human nature does not exist—at least not as we usually think of it. Flying in the face of major trends in Evolutionary Psychology and related fields, he offers a provocative and compelling argument in this book that the only thing humans are hardwired for is freedom: freedom from evolutionary instinct and freedom to adapt to a variety of environmental and cultural contexts. Everett sketches a blank-slate picture of human cognition that focuses not on what is in the mind but, rather, what the mind is in—namely, culture. He draws on years of field research among the Amazonian people of the Pirahã in order to carefully scrutinize various theories of cognitive instinct, including Noam Chomsky’s foundational concept of universal grammar, Freud’s notions of unconscious forces, Adolf Bastian’s psychic unity of mankind, and works on massive modularity by evolutionary psychologists such as Leda Cosmides, John Tooby, Jerry Fodor, and Steven Pinker. Illuminating unique characteristics of the Pirahã language, he demonstrates just how differently various cultures can make us think and how vital culture is to our cognitive flexibility. Outlining the ways culture and individual psychology operate symbiotically, he posits a Buddhist-like conception of the cultural self as a set of experiences united by various apperceptions, episodic memories, ranked values, knowledge structures, and social roles—and not, in any shape or form, biological instinct. The result is fascinating portrait of the “dark matter of the mind,” one that shows that our greatest evolutionary adaptation is adaptability itself.
Please Don T Wake The Animals
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Author : Mary Batten
language : en
Publisher: Peachtree Publishing Company
Release Date : 2008
Please Don T Wake The Animals written by Mary Batten and has been published by Peachtree Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Sleep behavior in animals categories.
All people sleep. So do all other mammals. Birds sleep, too. Even snakes, fish, and insects have a way of sleeping. How different animals sleep on land, in water, and in the air-and the special ways they do it-is the subject of this fascinating book for young readers. Using accessible language and scientifically accurate terms, author Mary Batten shows how animals sleep in very different ways and for various lengths of time depending on their size, their physiology, and their habitat. From three-toed sloths hanging from tree branches to dolphins dozing near the ocean's surface, Batten presents a rich variety of wildlife and animal behavior. Additional information about the featured animals as well as simple explanations of terms such as hibernation and torpor are included in sidebars throughout the book. Enhancing the text are illustrator Higgins Bond's vivid, realistic wildlife illustrations feature animals in their natural environments.
Time For Bed
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Author : Mem Fox
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 1993
Time For Bed written by Mem Fox and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
As darkness falls, parents get their children ready for sleep.
Come On Shore And We Will Kill And Eat You All
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Author : Christina Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2009-07-14
Come On Shore And We Will Kill And Eat You All written by Christina Thompson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"A multilayered, highly informative and insightful book that blends memoir, historical and travel narrative-vivid and meticulously researched."--San Francisco Chronicle
Many Colors Of Love
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Author : שרית רצון
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2019-08
Many Colors Of Love written by שרית רצון and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08 with categories.
"A complex story of tangled complications that life with its intense relationships can bring to our consciousness along with hope for a positive happy outcome. " - 5 Stars, Amazon Reviewer "If you like and enjoy a clean romance, this book is just perfect for you. I finished it in about four hours of nonstop reading." - 5 Stars, Amazon Reviewer "A romantic story and the thrill of a tragic and mysterious disappearance." - 5 Stars, Amazon Reviewer "This is a very intricate story of modern day romance and relationships. The main character seems to always come to the rescue and is very relatable in each of the lives she touches." - 5 Stars, Amazon Reviewer When Daniel makes a terrible mistake and his marriage is falling apart, Rivi is there to help. But then, will she be able to deal with many colors of love in her own life?
Don T Take A Bath On Friday
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Don T Take A Bath On Friday written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Folklore categories.