tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22093933.post6155786984943080771..comments2024-03-28T09:41:15.454-05:00Comments on Deric's MindBlog: How culture shapes spatial conceptions of time - Is your past in front of, or behind you?Deric Bowndshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16617204535017208765noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22093933.post-88098124315940183682014-10-18T02:17:40.984-05:002014-10-18T02:17:40.984-05:00I tracked down the paper. Its a disappointment. It...I tracked down the paper. Its a disappointment. Its a reworking of the findings of the Aymara tribe in South America, applied to Moroccans with a possible distinction, but unclear. The Aymara and Moroccans are the only clear example of past ahead and future behind, but the authors ask the question:<br /><br />"What causes some communities to adopt a future-in front mapping and others a past-in-front mapping for<br />time?"<br /><br />That kind of even handed expression when the factors are not evenly balanced is a distortion. What they should ask is why there are so very few isolated exceptions to the universal way. <br /><br />The Aymara use the eye as their reference, because what is seen is known and the past is known, therefore with eyes at front, the past is at front. If any readers are interested they can see why the eye is "past". This is entirely consistent with the usual future at front, but it specializes extremely to favour an eye rather than revert to the whole anatomy to frame past-to-future. My work is on skydrive at http://sdrv.ms/1a4HBbkAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14612283941807324298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22093933.post-45244904403263380802014-10-17T21:46:02.728-05:002014-10-17T21:46:02.728-05:00Pity its not open access Champ! Looks like there m...Pity its not open access Champ! Looks like there might be a small anomaly to the golden rule in some tribes here and there. I would like to see the product of their "alternative" view in artefacts. I suspect its mostly an obfuscation, and certainly isolated in any event. Left is also future, and right is past, so researchers need to consider that is addition to front-back. The left-right is seen in work at Case Western.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14612283941807324298noreply@blogger.com