Australia: Remembrances Of Times East: Absolute Spatial Representations Of Time In An ...

Australia: Remembrances Of Times East: Absolute Spatial Representations Of Time In An Australian Aboriginal Community Lera Boroditsky, and Alice Gaby, 2010   How do people think about time? Here we describe representations of time in Pormpuraaw, a remote Australian Aboriginal community. Pormpuraawans’ representations of time differ strikingly from all others documented to date. Previously, people have been shown to represent time spatially from left to right or right to left, or from front...

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