Daniel L. Everett (Dan)

This site is primarily about my books on language, culture, and, in the next couple of years, about life and learning from others, as featured in my new project/book-in-progress, on the cultural and evolutionary challenges and needs for diversity. This book is based on ideas I first expressed in an interview on the BBC, since published on the BBC’s website as Living With Strangers

In case you’re interested in seeing how I spent the last thirty years of my life, professionally (the best things are not on here – high school graduations, children’s weddings, grandchildren (7!) being born, meeting new colleagues, getting remarried, and so on), here is a copy of my most recent Curriculum Vitae.

My new field methods book with Jeanette Sakel is due out next month, December 2011.

Publications

Don’t Sleep, There are Snakes

My work on the Pirahas as described in Don’t Sleep, There are Snakes, DSTAS, has been claimed to be controversial. I don’t really know if I agree with this. It was never intended to be controversial. Whether it is or isn’t, … Continue reading

Language: the Cultural Tool

My newest book for a general audience is Language: The Cultural Tool, LCT. This book makes the case that language is not an instinct or the result of an innate universal grammar, but that it is a tool that emerges … Continue reading

New Mandarin Version

There is now a Mandarin version of my book Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes available. Find out how to get the mandarin version of this book.

In the Press

Frankfurter Allegemeine Zeitung

Here is a profile of me in one of the leading papers of Germany. If you read German, it gives my answers to a number of common questions about my work. FAZ Net Profile Other books of mine that are … Continue reading