When Daniel Everett went to live among the Pirahã people in the late 1970s, he was committed to two sets of orthodox beliefs. One came from evangelical Christianity (he and his wife Keren were ...
The Piraha people of the Amazon river basin live an existence unthinkable to most of us, one that consists of hunting, gathering, fishing in the Amazon and occasionally bartering with passing ...
The Pirahã are an “ordinary sort of folk,” says Philip Oltermann, a contributor to the British magazine. “They enjoy chatting and socializing,” as well as “a drink or two -- not unlike your average ...
During the late 1930s, amateur linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf posed the theory that language can determine the nature and content of thought. But are there concepts in one culture that people of another ...
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