Sunday, May 29, 2011

Amondawa tribe lacks abstract idea of time, study says

An 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".

The study, in Language and Cognition, shows that while the Amondawa recognise events occuring in time, it does not exist as a separate concept .... Read More at http://www.bbc.co.uk