We
all in our modern era are awarded and after the time fixed. Talk about
events that occur early, late, on time or not at the right time. It is
in fact obsessed mankind has always been in antiquity.
But
in the modern era feel more present and palpable. Thus, it would be
inconceivable to think that on this planet divided into time zones and
the people who live under its tiktakun have a population who has no idea
what is time, time, or what it means to live and work under its
pressure.
It
is an entire tribe living in the Amazon and that no linguistic
structure that makes time and space together in the concept that exists
in the world like for example they can not understand what they
togfjalëshin: "Working at night". So that includes the time and place
action. A study was done to this family and "deficiency" of his has
shown that the tribe Amondawa events flowing one after another and the
time as a concept does not exist.
In
fact, everything may seem contradictory and incomprehensible and would
need further studies to really understand how it is possible that these
people, that this tribe live without the concept of time. Another puzzle
is whether this feature, so that the deficiency of the concept of time
or not have other languages of the Amazon.
Amondawa
tribe was first contacted by the world's "civilized" in 1986 and now
scientists from the University of Portsmothit have begun to analyze the
notion of time in such a way that it appears in the language of this
tribe.
"We
do not say that these are people who do not have time" to the concept
of their lives, "says a professor of psychology at the university
language. According to him, the people of this tribe speak of events and
sequences of events, but what is not understood is that they have the
notion of time divided by the events that occur, therefore have no
notion of the events happening within a linear and conditioned by time.
People
already do not refer to either their age, but have different names for
different moments of their lives, because through these changes and they
change their status in the society in which they belong.
But
what is most impressive is the suggestion of scientists who study the
issue with the connection that exists between the concept of not
spending time in a certain space. Ideas such as "past" or "the future"
that are very common and articulated in most languages of the world
form the basis of what is known as "planning assumptions". But the tribe
Amondawa such a thing exists.However, some scientists say this does not
mean they do not have the cognitive skills that are usually people in
connection with certain events at certain times and places.
When
the people of this tribe begin to learn Portuguese, something that is
happening more and more often they have no trouble to learn the words
"time" and those associated with the concept of time and space. Starting
from such a fact scientists have come up with the idea that maybe this
"deficiency" is because in these tribes there exists the so-called
"technology" of the time, so they do not know nor have neither clocks
calendars.
But
that argument failed to convince Pierre Pica, a theoretical linguist
focused on his studies in a language known as Amazon mundurucu language.
According
to him, the study shows very interesting data, but argues in a very
simple non-existence of long term and above all his relatës the term
space. Small companies as it Amondawes tribe tend to use absolute terms
for spatial relations.
For
example, they refer to the location of a river well known by all in a
very simple and no redundant predictors that could be for example "the
shore". Those inhabitants of this tribe has become part of modern life
that already require their language and "deficiencies" studied her well,
before it is too late, then be gone before what is happening with great
speed Because of the aging population and youth drain from the old
lands.
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