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Inside the Pirahã World: Deciphering the Amazon’s Most Enigmatic Language | SLICE | FULL DOCUMENTARY
A former evangelical missionary turned linguist recounts how the Pirahã people's contentment dismantled his faith, his family, and possibly Chomsky's most celebrated idea.
- I had no idea when I started that trying to convert another group of people is an inherently colonialist activity — it's the colonialism of the mind, of beliefs.
- The Dilemma for the Christian Missionary is: for your message to work you have to convince them that they're wrong — so they have to be lost before you can convince them that they need to be saved.
- Taking the message of God to the Pirahã is like taking ice to the Eskimos.
- Here's this guy coming out of the jungle with a language that only he knows, saying the greatest linguist in history is dead wrong about his most important idea.
- Pirahã mothers don't know how many children they have — but they know every child's name and face. They don't need a number to know who their children are.