Bit random but can you remember anything about people measuring distance in units of time that it takes rice to boil? I have that idea kicking around my head and I thought it might have been something you once told me...
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I wish I had – that sounds terribly poetic! I did a bit of searching through the anthropological literature but couldn't find any refs to it. LMK if it turns up elsewhere
If you're looking for alternative mappings of time/space, Lera Boroditsky's research is a good shout
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Thanks so much! Boroditsky looks amazing and just the kind of thing I'm interested in 🙏
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I just came across this in Seeing Like A State. Rice cooking cycles is a rural unit of length in Malaysia. “How far is it to the next village?” / “Three rice cookings”.
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