This is the wrap-up video for the third month of the book club. This month we read Don’t Sleep There Snakes: Life & Language in the Amazonian Jungle by Dani
1 author picked Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it. What is this book about? 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
Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes is a captivating memoir written by Daniel Everett, an American linguist and cultural anthropologist. The book chronicles Everett’s experiences while living among the Pirahã people, a small indigenous group residing in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. The title of the book is derived from a warning that Everett
A lot people who travel, can be very bias when they travel to certain places, for example, in Stanley’s book Through the Dark Continent, “Whilst Stanley obviously encourages a sense of cultural superiority in his readers when he depicts Africans as savages or simpleton, his narrative also works in more subtle ways to produce this effect” (Thompson, pg. 145).
Book of the Month Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle , by Daniel L. Everett. At a time when ChatGPT has everyone’s attention, this timeless book of exploration by linguist Daniel Everett lends perspective on the nature of language.
Read 646 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. Daniel Everett moved his young family to the Brazilian jungle hoping to help a remote Amaz
 But frequently they use an expression that, though surprising at first, has come to be one of my favorite ways of saying good night: “Don’t sleep, there are snakes.”. The Pirahãs say this for two reasons. First, they believe that by sleeping less they can “harden themselves,” a value they all share. H4TU.
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