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DESTROYED TIME OF THE 21ST CENTURY

AUTHOR OF THE ARTICLE: ANNA KALIUZHNAEditor-in-Chief of the journal Culture and Religion At the end of the 19th century, the French ethnographer Émile Durkheim noticed a strange feature of human societies. People living in different cultures do not simply count time differently — they literally feel it differently. For a peasant in medieval Europe, the...