In his 2008 memoir, ''Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes,'' the linguist Dan Everett recalled the night members of the Pirahã -- the isolated Amazonian hunter-gatherers he first visited as a Christian missionary in the late 1970s -- tried to kill him. Dr. Everett survived, and his life among the Pirahã, a group of several hundred living in northwest...
The American linguist Noam Chomsky, a prominent source of intellectual inspiration for President Hugo Chávez, made a new appeal on Wednesday for the release of María Lourdes Afiuni, a judge arrested two years ago by the secret intelligence police. The detention of Judge Afiuni, who was given two additional years of house arrest in December, has...
''Project Nim,'' a new documentary by James Marsh, is a probing, unsettling study of primate behavior, focusing on the complex dynamics of power, sex and group bonding in a species whose startling capacity for selfishness and aggression is offset by occasional displays of intelligence and compassion. The movie also features a chimpanzee. His name...
Dr. Avram Noam Chomsky (født 7. december 1928) er filosof og professor i lingvistik ved Massachusetts Institute of Technology og skaber af Chomsky-hierarkiet, en klassifikation af formelle sprog. Udover at forske i lingvistik beskriver Chomsky sig selv som libertær socialist, og anarkist og er kendt for sine venstreorienterede politiske debatindlæg og bøger. Chomsky er en kritiker af den amerikanske udenrigspolitik. Hans forældre er faderen William Chomsky en professor i hebraisk og moderen Elsie Chomsky (née Simonofsky). Trods at jiddisch var forældrenes første sprog, så var det tabu at snakke dette i hjemmet.
De seneste år har han desuden markeret sig som deltager i den globaliseringskritiske bevægelse.
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