The article described the extreme simplicity of the tribe’s living conditions and culture.
The Pirahã, Everett wrote, have no numbers, no fixed color terms, no perfect tense, no deep memory, no tradition of art or drawing, and no words for “all,” “each,” “every,” “most,” or “few”—terms of quantification believed by some linguists to be among the common building blocks of human cognition.
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Walter J. Ong – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
His major interest was in exploring how the transition from orality to literacy influenced culture and changed human consciousness.