Thursday 22 March 2007

Pina-Cabral says:

“There are eyes observing the unsuspecting stranger in the most apparently deserted places.”

"Alternational time is a time of the present which tends to produce a mute past and an irrelevant future. This is the time of the relation between seasons, between the genders, between day and night, the sun and the moon, life and death.”

“ ... the constant use of watches, diaries, timetables and calendars – all these are means to ablolish the diversity of time.”

In: Pina-Cabral, J. (1987). Paved roads and Enchanted mooresses: The perception of the Past among the Peasant Population of the Alto Minho. Man (22) p. 715-735

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