Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Chapter : Reading 2 pages 21-29(Interpreting Aboriginal Cultures by Gerald Friesen).docx
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Pages 21 29 dominant mode of communication for aboriginal people was speech: we divide time minutes, days, years, centuries linear unit of life time fixed measuring rod space is vague seemed definite but recently not so much, we can transcend space with modern communication everyday calculations of time build on natural occurrences traditional societies had ecological time seasons and lunar cycles structural time secondary measure of time, marks passing of generations explains interactions of groups within them, mayas leaders guided by astronomy did not segregate past from future, past could repeat itself.
