別睡，這裏有蛇 : 一個語言學家和人類學家在亞馬孫叢林深處

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

頁面參數僅供參考，具體以實物為準

[書籍內容/Book De*ion]

1977年，丹尼爾·埃弗裏特攜妻子和三個年幼的孩子來到亞馬孫叢林中皮拉罕人的部落，他想要傳教，改變皮拉罕人的宗教信仰。但他發現皮拉罕語違背了所有現存的語言理論，並反映出一種遠離當代認識的生活方式。例如皮拉罕人沒有記數系統，沒有統一的顏色的稱謂，沒有戰爭和個人財產的概念，沒有過去與未來，完全活在當下。埃弗裏特開始痴迷於他們的語言、文化，並沉溺於他們的生活方式，久而久之，他最終失去了傳教的信念。

這本書是埃弗裏特30多年客旅叢林的生活記錄。在這30多年裏，埃弗裏特的妻兒差一點因瘧疾病死他鄉，埃弗裏特也曾因觸犯皮拉罕人的自由而被羣起攻之，但更多的是，埃弗裏特分享了他與皮拉罕人共處時的種種幸福的點滴：打魚、捕獵、修房子、教他們算數和製造獨木舟……

埃弗裏特以放棄現代文明生活的代價換來書中與皮拉罕人一起生活的奇聞軼事。同時，這本書也是對現代語言和文化的和探索。皮拉罕人讓埃弗裏特反思現代文明，並試圖讓我們思考，除了我們理解的生活方式外，人生還會有怎樣的可能。

Although Daniel Everett was a missionary, far from converting the Pirah?s, 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 Pirah? 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.

[作者簡介/Author]

丹尼爾·埃弗裏特（Daniel L. Everett）

曾任伊利諾伊州立大學語言、文學與文化系主任，匹茲堡大學語言學系主任，現任本特利大學藝術與科學學院的院長。

丹尼爾?埃弗裏特能夠流利地使用皮拉罕語，因長期從事研究皮拉罕語而聞名於世。他在皮拉罕語系統上的發現，既挑戰了語言學界權威喬姆斯基的理論，更進一步説明了語言與文化的相互關係。

在語言學理論和對瀕臨消失的亞馬孫流域的土著語言的研究方面，埃弗裏特已發表了90多篇論文，出版了6本書籍。

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.