
Napoleon Chagnon - Blood Is Their Argument Part I Discussion [6.6.13]
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The Importance of Interaction With People Who Speak Another Language
N.A. Mama earned his primitives and we think they're actually quite accurate in terms of what the speech way consists of. Steve Levinson has a hypothesis about the importance of interaction with people who speak another language to simplify your own language. Nobody knows if it's true. But do the Yana Mama have much experience interacting with people who don't speak Yana Mama? And in your case, you didn't. I mean, have most of them heard people speaking foreign languages? Probably now there's no Yana Mama who has not ever been in the presence of a foreigner. They may live in a really isolated village, but they walk three days to go to the closest mission
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