Joe Soltzberg

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By treating dreaming and being awake as conforming to immediacy of experience, the Pirahãs could deal with problems and issues that to us would involve an explicitly fictitious or religious world of beliefs and spirits in terms of their direct and immediate experience.
Joe Soltzberg
Crazy. An alternate technique for programming fictional beliefs into a culture
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Vintage Departures)
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