Daniel Everett Ticket Info

 

The Long Now Foundation’s monthly Seminars About Long-term Thinking

Daniel Everett, “Endangered languages, lost knowledge and the future”

Friday March 20, 02009 at 7:30pm

 

 

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 You can purchase tickets for $10 HERE

We recommend purchasing or reserving your seats in advance as our Seminars can sell out.  There is room for 100 walk-ups (60 seats) for the free simulcast in the Lobby; this is a separate line, so get there early!

 About this Seminar:

The Pirahã, a remote Amazonian tribe with little outside contact, have attracted the attention of mainstream media, scientists, zen buddhists, professors of religion, mathematicians, philosophers and others because of their unusual confluence of values, language, and culture.

Now, after 20 years of high intellectual and physical adventure living among them, Daniel Everett proposes a revolution in anthropology and linguistics: culture profoundly shapes language, even at the most fundamental level.

What happens when a language-culture pairing like the Pirahãs’ is lost? The Pirahãs are not alone in their lessons and knowledge for all of us — there are hundreds of endangered languages in the world — but they provide  a remarkably clear example of alternative knowledge and ways of talking of importance to all of us as we ponder how we should try to build future lives.

Everett is author of Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazon Jungle (02008) and is Chair of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Illinois State University.

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