Acclaimed author of “Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes” (2009), Daniel Everett, Professor of Global Studies and Dean of Arts and Sciences at Bentley University, explores how language may shape the way we see the world. Everett spent years living with and studying the language of the Pirahã, a hunter-gatherer society inhabiting the sweeping banks of the Amazon’s Maici River. Everett draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to share rich and astounding observations of a people who still speak one of the world’s most complex languages, 4:15 p.m., Olin Science Center, Room 014, 860-439-2248
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