Guambia's perception of time
Hi guys, As I was going through the readings for tomorrow I realized an experience I had with one of the indigenous groups in my country. When I read "The medium is the message" from McLuhan and his debate about the separation between the medium and the content and how it ignores the nature of the medium I remembered a community located in the southwest of Colombia. Their name is "guambianos" and originally came from the Guambía nation. In one of my anthropology classes, we were talking about the notion of time, one of my indigenous classmates started to talk about how they think history is a walking snail, he didn't say history is like a walking snail, it is just a walking snail. This has been with me since that time, and now that I can relate it with what McLuhan and Ong said, it has more sense to me. Oral cultures like the people from Guambía express language as a mode of action and as a sound that has actual power inside their communities. This also relates...
