Daniel L. Everett is currently Dean of Arts and Sciences at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He has published more than ten books on linguistic theory, life in the Amazon, and the description of endangered Amazonian languages.
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Daniel Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977—with his wife and three young children—intending to convert them. What he found was a language that defies all existing linguistic theories and reflects a way of li... SEE MORE