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Comparing Time and Temporality in Cultures

University of Ghent

In this article I investigate how time perception and conceptualization in another culture (Navajo Indian culture) can be understood. The now 'classical' distinction between cyclical time (in non-western cultures) and linear time (in the western tradition) is challenged. Instead, a particular complex of temporality notions in the Navajo culture yields a series of interesting avenues for the study of time as a cultural, rather than a mere natural, phenomenon.

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