Question

In Western cultures, time is expressed in an ego-centric fashion. The present is indicated by pointing down, the future is indicated by pointing forward, and the past is indicated by pointing behind us. The Aymara were studied to see if their spatial construal of time would be ego-centered or object-centered. What was found?

Answer 1

Time was ego-centered, but reversed from Western cultures (i.e. the future is indicated by pointing backward and the past is indicated by pointing forward).

Step-by-step explanation:

The Aymara, an indigenous group in the Andes highlands around Bolivia, Chile. They are said to have a time concept that is different from our own. Certain novel studies were made scientists to uncover the facts that the Aymara consider the past to be ahead and the future behind them. Time was mapped with the properties of space.