Chapter 15 An Empirical Test of the Theory

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgment xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. A Case Study of the Australian Aborigines 11
7. Patterned-Cyclical Time Consciousness 25
8. Patterned-Cyclical Time Consciousness, Continued 41
9. Ordinary-Linear Time Consciousness 57
10. Patterned-Cyclical and Ordinary-Linear Time and the Two Sides of the Brain 69
11. Immediate-Participatory and Episodic-Futural Time and the Brain 83
12. The Two and the Four, and Possibly More Social Duality and the Four Elementary Forms of Sociality 95
13. Natural and Rational Experiences of Time 111
14. Communal Sharing and Patterned-Cyclical Time Consciousness 121
15. Equality Matching and Immediate-Participatory Time Consciousness 135
16. Authority Ranking and Episodic-Futural Time Consciousness 157
17. Market Pricing and Ordinary-Linear Time Consciousness 169
18. Text and Temporality 187
19. An Empirical Test of the Theory 195
20. Discussion 207
21. Appendix 217
22. Notes 221
23. References 223
24. Name Index 245
25. Subject Index 251