Daniel Leonard Everett (born 26 July 1951) is an American linguistic anthropologist and author best known for his study of the Amazon Basin’s Pirahã people and their language.”

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Charles Sanders Peirce : o Juggernaut americano

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Over the years I have had grants totaling more than three million dollars for Amazonian research, from the European Commission, Brazil, the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Economics and Social Research Council of Great Britain, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Science Foundation, among others.