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01. An Amazonian tribe has been discovered 02. that has no concept of time or dates. 03. The Amondawa people of Brazil do not 04. even have words for "time", "week", "month" 05. or "year", said Chris Sinha, of the University 06. of Portsmouth. 07. He argues that it is the first time scientists 08. have been able to prove time is not a deeply 09. entrenched universal human concept, as 10. previously thought. 11. According to Professor Sinha we can now 12. say without doubt that there is at least one 13. language and culture which does not have a 14. concept of time as something that can be 15. measured, counted or talked about in the 16. abstract, which doesn't mean that the 17. Amondawa are "people outside time": they 18. live in a world of events, rather than seeing 19. events as being embedded in time. 20. There are no words for such concepts as 21. "next week" or "last year", only divisions of 22. day and night and rainy and dry seasons. It 23. was also found nobody in the community has 24. an age. …….. , they change their names to 25. reflect their life-stage and position within their 26. society. For example, a little child will give up 27. his or her name to a newborn sibling and take 28. on a new one. 29. Professor Sinha said: "We have so many 30. metaphors for time and its passing - we think 31. of time as a 'thing' - we say 'the weekend is 32. nearly gone', 'she's coming up to her exams', 33. 'I haven't got the time', and so on, and we 34. think such statements are objective, but they 35. aren't. We've created these metaphors and 36. they have become the way we think. The 37. Amondawa don't talk like this and don't think 38. like this, unless they learn another language. 39. For these fortunate people time isn't money, 40. they aren't racing against the clock to 41. complete anything, and nobody is discussing 42. next week or next year. You could say they 43. enjoy a certain freedom". Adaptado de: Daily Mail, 20 mai 2011. Disponível em: <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article- 1389070/Amazon-Amondawa-tribe-age-words-likemonth-year-dont-exist.html#ixzz25dEZL89p>. Acesso em: 05 set. 2012. 24