Agreeing to Disagree: The Measurement of Duration in a Southwestern Ethiopian Community [and Comments and Reply]
@article{Turton1978AgreeingTD, title={Agreeing to Disagree: The Measurement of Duration in a Southwestern Ethiopian Community [and Comments and Reply]}, author={David J. Turton and Clive Ruggles and Anthony Francis Aveni and Elizabeth Chesley Baity and Catherine A. Callaghan and Marvin Cohodas and James Dow and W. R. Hirschberg and Alice Beck Kehoe and Jonathan E. Reyman and James L. Swauger and Serge Tornay and Gary Urton}, journal={Current Anthropology}, year={1978}, volume={19}, pages={585 - 600} }
The Mursi are cultivators and cattle herders who live in the Lower Omo Valley of southwestern Ethiopia and whose methods of measuring duration have so far been unaffected by contact with literate cultures. In this article it is shown how the Mursi solve the problem of relating a cycle of seasonal events to a nonintegral series of lunar months, while remaining unaware that this cycle is related, in fact, to the solar year. This analysis leads to three main conclusions which may have some…
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