World famous linguist and fieldworker Daniel Everett visits Aarhus University
Experience the widely acknowledged and controversial American anthropologist/linguist Dan Everett. Everett will show a film about his life with the Pirahɑ̃-people in the Amazon: “The Grammar of Happiness”.
2012.04.30
| Date | Wed 11 Apr |
| Time | 15:30 — 19:00 |
| Location | Aarhus University, Jens Chr. Skous vej, room 123, building 1485 |
World famous linguist and fieldworker Daniel Everett in Aarhus
Experience the widely acknowledged and controversial American anthropologist/linguist Dan Everett. Everett will show a film about his life with the Pirahã in the Brazilian Amazon. Lecture about their famous language, which has no numbers, no mythology, no oral history… A challenge for linguists, cognitive scientists, theologists, anthropologists......
Discussion afterwards
May 11, 2012, Aarhus University, Jens Chr. Skous vej, room 123, building 1485, Nobelparken
The movie starts at 15.30, the event ends around 19
Students free entry!
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