Daniel Everett: Life with the Pirahã

Update: 2016-03-28

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Author and linguistics professor Daniel Everett talks about becoming a Christian missionary as a young adult, living with the Pirahã tribe in the Amazon in an attempt to convert them to Christianity, and how his experience with the Pirahã moved him to atheism and a reevaluation of his beliefs and his life.

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Daniel Everett: Life with the Pirahã

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Daniel Everett: Life with the Pirahã