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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Daniel_EverettDaniel Everett - Wikipedia

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   Daniel Leonard Everett (born July 26, 1951) is an American linguist and author best known for his study of the Amazon basin 's Pirahã people and their language . Everett is currently [when?] Trustee Professor of Cognitive Sciences at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts.

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     Daniel Everett, "Homo Erectus and the Invention of Human Language"

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     Wisdom from Strangers | Daniel Everett | TEDxPenn

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   Jun 15, 2017 · For eight of the last thirty years, Daniel Everett immersed himself in the Pirahã culture, which has no counting system, no fixed terms for color, no concept...

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4. faculty.bentley.edu › profile › deverettDaniel Everett, Professor, Sociology - Bentley University

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   Daniel L. (Dan) Everett holds a ScD and a Masters of Linguistics from the Universidade Estadual in Campinas (UNICAMP), both based upon years of field research among the Pirahã people of the Brazilian Amazon jungle. He taught as an instructor and later Assistant Professor at UNICAMP, 1981-1986, until leaving Brazil to return to the USA. He next was appointed full professor of linguistics and ...

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6. www.52-insights.com › daniel-everett-battle-forInterview: Daniel Everett | Battle for the Origin of Language

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   Feb 9, 2017 · Daniel Everett was 26 when he first entered the Amazon rainforest as a missionary, with his wife and three young children in tow. He was tasked with converting the remote Pirahã tribe to Christianity, a task he would fail, in the process losing his own faith and tearing his family apart.

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   Nov 3, 2009 · A play based on Everett's life, Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes, premiered in London in the spring of 2016. Another piece of performance art based on Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes, was performed in Berlin, also in late spring 2016. Everett is currently Dean of Arts and Sciences at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts.

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8. www.nytimes.com › 2012/04/08 › books‘Language: The Cultural Tool,’ by Daniel L. Everett - The New ...

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   Apr 6, 2012 · The Cultural Tool. By Daniel L. Everett. Illustrated. 351 pp. Pantheon Books. $27.95. John McWhorter teaches linguistics, Western civilization and American studies at Columbia University. His ...

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   Who was Daniel Everett?

   • Daniel Everett was 26 when he first entered the Amazon rainforest as a missionary, with his wife and three young children in tow. He was tasked with converting the remote Pirahã tribe to Christianity, a task he would fail, in the process losing his own faith and tearing his family apart.

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   Is Dan Everett a good book?

   • "Dan Everett has written an excellent book. First, it is a very powerful autobiographical account of his stay with the Pirahã in the jungles of the Amazon basin. Second, it is a brilliant piece of ethnographical description of life among the Pirahã.

   Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian

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   Why did Daniel Everett come to the pirah?

   • 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.

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   How has Daniel Everett changed the linguistic world?

   • Although fossil hunters and linguists have brought us closer to unearthing the true origins of language, Daniel Everett’s discoveries have upended the contemporary linguistic world, reverberating far beyond academic circles.

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    Nov 7, 2017 · Daniel Everett is a leader of the counterrevolution that is putting culture and cultural evolution back at the center of linguistics, and cognition more generally, where I think it belongs. How Language Began is an accessible account of the case for a culture-centered theory of language."