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From: "Michael R. Brown" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2012 8:22 PM
Subject: [MD] Aymara - already posted perhaps?
Tell an old Aymara speaker to "face the past!" and you just might get a
blank stare in return – because he or she already does.
New analysis of the language and gesture of South America's indigenous
Aymara people indicates a reverse concept of time.
Contrary to what had been thought a cognitive universal among humans – a
spatial metaphor for chronology, based partly on our bodies' orientation
and locomotion, that places the future ahead of oneself and the past
behind – the Amerindian group locates this imaginary abstraction the other
way around: with the past ahead and the future behind.
- http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/06/060613185239.htm
Their way of referring to time doesn't mean a reversal of the norm, just
that they use a different concept in regards to expressing time. They still
think of it the same way, in that what has already happened is clear to
them, while the future is unknown. That doesn't mean they live in the past,
just that they know about it. The author was fairly confusing, but I had
the reaction of, "they point backward to the future because they can't see
it" before I got to that part of the article. It also depicts a fairly lax
attitude toward planning....
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