Reddit reviews Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Vintage Departures)
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Read the book, quite extradordinary.
Well there is this one:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/mar/25/daniel-everett-human-language-piraha
https://aeon.co/essays/why-language-is-not-everything-that-noam-chomsky-said-it-is
He wrote this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Sleep-There-Are-Snakes-ebook/dp/B001FA0KLS
And there is John McWhorter's debate against the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis: https://www.amazon.com/Language-Hoax-John-H-McWhorter-ebook/dp/B00IJXM6R0
The Pirahã kind of don't. I mean, they certainly like to be happy, but it's very different from American happiness, and they also really really value being "tough" at the sake of happiness. For example, they often go hungry even though there's food enough for them to eat. Their culture is really neat, and I suggest picking up Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes.