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Release Date 2013.01.22
Air Date 2013.01.21 (Australia)
Genre Documentary
EPiSODE iNFO
The Grammar Of Happiness follows the story of Daniel Everett amongst
the extraordinary 'unconvertible' Amazonian Pirah tribe, a group of
indigenous hunter- gatherers whose culture and outlook on life has
taken the world of linguistics by storm.
As a young ambitious missionary three decades ago, Dan, a
red-bearded towering American, decamped to the Amazon rain forest to
save indigenous souls. His assignment was to translate the book of
Mark into the tongue of the Pirah , a people whose puzzling speech
seemed unrelated to any other on Earth. What he learned during his
time with the Pirah led him to question the very foundations of his
own deep beliefs.
As a 'born again' atheist, Dan divorced his devout Christian wife
and became estranged from his children. Having lost faith and
family, his new life is dominated by the desire to leave behind his
legacy. Everett's most controversial claim is that the Pirah
language lacks 'recursion' - the ability to build an infinite number
of sentences within sentences, regarded by Chomsky-ists as perhaps
the most fundamental characteristic of human language.
The Grammar Of Happiness interweaves the tale of Everett's attempt
to return to the Pirah with the story of his personal journey since
the sixties - from drug-taking musician to evangelical missionary to
rabblerousing academic. It's the adventurous tale of losing faith
but finding happiness.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/guide/abc1/201301/programs/DO1005H001D2013-0
21T213000.htm
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