Amazon tribe first contacted in 1986 has no abstract concept of time

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Amazonian tribe has no abstract concept of time, say researchers. The Amondawa lacks the linguistic structures that relate time and space - as in our idea of, for example, “working through the night”. Read full article

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GeoffWard
Remember this story in the media a couple of years ago - a USA missionary with a strength in linguistics and languages researched and reported the same thing, different Amazonian tribe.
May 23rd, 2011 - 12:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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