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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Some Notes on the Pirahã Language as Used in This Book
Preface
Prologue
Part One: LIFE
1. Discovering the World of the Pirahãs
2. The Amazon
3. The Cost of Discipleship
4. Sometimes You Make Mistakes
5. Material Culture and the Absence of Ritual
6. Families and Community
7. Nature and the Immediacy of Experience
8. A Teenager Named Túkaaga: Murder and Society
9. Land to Live Free
10. Caboclos: Vignettes of Amazonian Brazilian Life
Part Two: LANGUAGE
11. Changing Channels with Pirahã Sounds
12. Pirahã Words
13. How Much Grammar Do People Need?
14. Values and Talking: The Partnership between Language and Culture
15. Recursion: Language as a Matrioshka Doll
16. Crooked Heads and Straight Heads: Perspectives on Language and Truth
Part Three: CONCLUSION
17. Converting the Missionary
Epilogue: Why Care about Other Cultures and Languages?
Acknowledgments
A Note about the Author
Copyright
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