别睡，这里有蛇 : 一个语言学家和人类学家在亚马孙丛林深处

Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes

[基本信息/Product Details]

Publisher : Profile Books; Main edition (6 Aug. 2009)

Language : English

Paperback : 320 pages

ISBN-10 : 1846680409

ISBN-13 : 978-1846680403

Dimensions : 12.9 x 1.9 x 19.8 cm

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

[书籍内容/Book Description]

1977年，丹尼尔·埃弗里特携妻子和三个年幼的孩子来到亚马孙丛林中皮拉罕人的部落，他想要传教，改变皮拉罕人的宗教信仰。但他发现皮拉罕语违背了所有现存的语言理论，并反映出一种远离当代认识的生活方式。例如皮拉罕人没有记数系统，没有统一的颜色的称谓，没有战争和个人财产的概念，没有过去与未来，完全活在当下。埃弗里特开始痴迷于他们的语言、文化，并沉溺于他们的生活方式，久而久之，他最终失去了传教的信念。

这本书是埃弗里特30多年客旅丛林的生活记录。在这30多年里，埃弗里特的妻儿差一点因疟疾病死他乡，埃弗里特也曾因触犯皮拉罕人的自由而被群起攻之，但更多的是，埃弗里特分享了他与皮拉罕人共处时的种种幸福的点滴：打鱼、捕猎、修房子、教他们算数和制造独木舟……

埃弗里特以放弃现代文明生活的代价换来书中与皮拉罕人一起生活的奇闻轶事。同时，这本书也是对现代语言和文化的和探索。皮拉罕人让埃弗里特反思现代文明，并试图让我们思考，除了我们理解的生活方式外，人生还会有怎样的可能。

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.

[作者简介/Author]

丹尼尔·埃弗里特（Daniel L. Everett）

曾任伊利诺伊州立大学语言、文学与文化系主任，匹兹堡大学语言学系主任，现任本特利大学艺术与科学学院的院长。

丹尼尔•埃弗里特能够流利地使用皮拉罕语，因长期从事研究皮拉罕语而闻名于世。他在皮拉罕语系统上的发现，既挑战了语言学界权威乔姆斯基的理论，更进一步说明了语言与文化的相互关系。

在语言学理论和对濒临消失的亚马孙流域的土著语言的研究方面，埃弗里特已发表了90多篇论文，出版了6本书籍。

Daniel Everett is Dean of Arts and Sciences at Bentley University in Massachusetts. Previously, he was Chair of the department of languages, literatures and cultures at Illinois State University. He is the author of international bestseller Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes.