[MD] Aymara - already posted perhaps?

[Michael R. Brown]

Tell an old Aymara speaker to "face the past!" and you just might get a 
blank stare in return – because he or she already does.

New analysis of the language and gesture of South America's indigenous 
Aymara people indicates a reverse concept of time.

Contrary to what had been thought a cognitive universal among humans – a 
spatial metaphor for chronology, based partly on our bodies' orientation and 
locomotion, that places the future ahead of oneself and the past behind – 
the Amerindian group locates this imaginary abstraction the other way 
around: with the past ahead and the future behind.

- http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/06/060613185239.htm


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