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Index
Page numbers in bold indicate definitions, figures, and tables.
abstraction(s), 62; culture as, 76, 79, 84; dismissed (Berkeley), 54; metaphoric gestures as, 246–47
actuation problem, 217, 247
adjacency (iconicity), 246. See also brain; linguistics
adults: visual perception among, 144–45; visual perception among Pirahãs, 145. See also perception; vision
afferent disorder, 239. See also gesture(s)
agriculture, Pirahãs’ brazil nut groves, 181–84, 188–91
algorithms, 29, 30, 102. See also science
Allah, 317–18. See also God; Muslims; religion
allophones, 8. See also linguistics
Alto do Cruzeiro (tribe), mothers among, 124–25. See also mothers; Pirahãs
anatman (nonself), 4, 13
animal cognition, 37–38
animals, nonhuman: cognition of, 37–38; differ from humans, 225, 256, 311; instincts of, 311; interactions with, 109, 117–18; knowledge acquisition, 122; nurtured by Pirahã women, 126; perception by, 266; Pirahã love of, 127; produce symbols, 200; rats, 285; resemble humans, 320, 32
1–22; Wilson on, 320. See also humans; Pirahãs
anomalies: as counterexamples, 154–55; as exceptions, 154. See also counterexamples; exceptions, vs. counterexamples
anthropology, 109, 138; and culture, 69–70, 79–80, 81–82, 133–34, 172; Geertz on, 139; linguistic turn in, 63–66; of “outsiders vs. autochthonous peoples, 187–88; physical, 72–75. See also ethnography; linguistics; Pirahãs; Rimrock study; Sapir, Edward
aphasia: Broca’s, 246; Wernicke’s, 246. See also brain; gesture(s); speech
apperception(s), 6, 11, 16, 25, 66, 107, 126, 161, 167, 199; William James on, 40–41; Kant on, 40; Leibniz on, 40; Quine on, 59. See also dark matter
a priori knowledge. See knowledge
Arawan (Amazonian people), 134, 207
Arbib, Michael A. 241
“Aristotelian shift,” 288
Aristotle, 12, 37n6, 224, 232, 258; Metaphysics, 51–52; Politics, 51; Posterior Analytics, 50; view of knowledge, 50–59, 244. See also gesture(s); Plato
Arrernte, gesture after (not before) words, 240–41. See also gesture(s)
arrows, Pirahãs, 178–81, 180, 181. See also text(s)
art: Australian Aboriginal, 252–53; Dutch, 98–99; reactions to, 138. See also photography
artificial intelligence (AI), 101–3. See also computer(s)
assumptions, tacit, 2
atheism/atheist, 3, 46. See also religion
Athena, 263
atman, 13
attachment: language and, 131–35; among Pirahãs, 123–35; theory, 119–22, 123n5
axiology, 85
babies. See children
Bakhtin, Mikhail, 261, 269
Baldwin, James, on culture, 66n2
Banawá (tribe), 125; culture of, 206–7, 249; Everett on, 206–7, 295. See also culture(s); Pirahãs
baptism, 264. See also Bible; Christianity
Bastian, Adolph, 34, 41–43, 274, 284, 290, 304; compared with Boas, 56–57; and Freud, 44; influence of, 44–47, 50; The People of East Asia, 42
Bastianism, 287. See also Bastian, Adolph
beats (form of gesture), 246–47
Becker, Alton L., 290
behavior: language as form of, 234; as particle, wave, and field (Pike), 237n8; sexual, 14. See also cognition
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