Here's a fabulous book that Duncan MacKinnon mentioned: https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Sleep-There-Are-Snakes/dp/0307386120
The title "Don't Sleep; There Are Snakes" refers to a saying author Dan Everett heard when living among Amazon Pirahã Indians. They're polyamorous, and have a very different sense of future time, and take catnaps in hammocks, such that somehow that phrase makes a lot more sense than something corresponding to "goodbye". (I've not yet read this book.) In general, the delight of this book (Duncan says) is that it allows the reader to see, for a moment, the world from a wholly different point of view, and Duncan says the description of Pirahã culture challenges Noam Chomsky's model of language. A talk by this author at Long Now: https://longnow.org/seminars/02009/mar/20/endangered-languages-lost-knowledge-and-future/ His site: https://daneverettbooks.com/ _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list Basfa@lists.basfa.org http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
