Núñez now believes that he has definitive evidence that
the Aymara have a sense of the passage of time that is the mirror
image of his own: the past is in front of them, the future behind.
Thirty years ago, Miracle and Yapita pointed to the often
incredulous responses of Aymara to some written texts:
“‘Columbus discovered America&rsquo—was the author
actually there?” In a language so reliant on the eyewitness, it is
not surprising that the speaker metaphorically faces what has
already been seen: the past. It is even logical, says Lakoff.
How
time flies
A very interesting article about a group of people in Chile who view time
differently than we Westerns do. Of course the past is in front of
them—they've seen the past. And the future? You can't see
behind you, so of course the future is back that-a-way.
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