ANT212H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: General Idea, Proselytism, Veganism
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Lecture #8: the pirahas and the grammer of. Everett is a linguist who began his research with the piraha people as a missionary. He converted to christianity at age 17, after meeting missionaries al and sue graham in san diego, california. At age 18 everett married the daughter of these missionaries, keren. He completed a diploma in foreign missions from the moody bible institute of. Daniel and keren everett subsequently enrolled in the summer institute of linguistics (now sil international), which trains missionaries in field linguistics so that they can translate the bible into various world languages. Evereo was invited to study pirah , which previous sil missionaries had failed to learn in 20 years of study. The book we read from is a collection of everett"s best stories based on his many years of field research among the piraha.