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Archaeologia Polona Vol. 44 (2006)
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences
The article shows the consequences of Roman Ingarden's (1987) philosophical remarks on the human usage of time, which can have a creative or a destructive effect on culture. The two, fundamentally different, ways of perception or use of time, are discussed in their relation to the two types of culture, mostly applying Edward Hall's classification and interesting conclusions (1977). Hall's concept of the monochronic and polychronic time systems are presented here in brief. The problem of synchronization of social activity moves to the question of introducing a non-linear time-order. It is illustrated with the ethnographic data on the religion of contem-porary Bushmen, provided by Bradford Keeney (2003), and confronted with Johann Tauler's statements. Consequently, looking for the sources of the inner power, one can find at least two answers depending on the experience of different time-orders. Finally, it is stated that living according to only one perception of time, characteristic of a monochronic culture, and which Andrzej Wierciński names "the apish aperture of the present", is an adaptive illusion
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Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Biblioteka Instytutu Archeologii i Etnologii PAN
Mar 3, 2023
https://rcin.org.pl./publication/77321
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