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Die Glücklichen des Amazonas The grammar of happiness

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  • ""... follows the story of Daniel Everett amongst the extraordinary 'unconvertible' Amazonian Piraha tribe, a group of Indigenous hunter-gatherers whose culture and outlook on life has taken the world of linguistics by storm." -- Container."
  • ""A language that can be spoken, hummed, or whistled? A language with no unique words for color or numbers? Linguistics professor Daniel Everett claims that the unique language of the Piraha people of the Amazon is exactly that. More than 30 years ago, he traveled as a missionary into the amazon rainforest to teach the tribe, but they ended up teaching him. Their way of life and unique form of communication have profoundly changed Everett, and inspired a theory that could undermine the most powerful theory (or theorist) of linguistics"--www.smithsonianchannel.com"

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  • "Documentary films"
  • "Nonfiction films"
  • "Feature films"
  • "DVD-Video"

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  • "Die Glücklichen des Amazonas The grammar of happiness"
  • "The Grammar of happiness"
  • "Die Glücklichen des Amazonas"
  • "The grammar of happiness"