ABSTRACT
We dance, we sing, we talk, and we bound together through time. Time is what brings us together. We bond with and learn from each other by synchronizing our movements in life. If other group living animals evidently orchestrate their existence in time, they do so more by contagion than intention. People from various cultural groups have identifiable ways of pacing their movements, from talking to walking. History and culture shape how we live and manage our time being. The cultural history of time keeping is revealing of the evolution of human relation to time, becoming more precise, hence stricter and more rigid. As a rule, what prevails in the hierarchy of any social groups is the luxury of loose leisure time and service privileges against chore and menial works. Yet, for multiple ecological and cultural reasons, life unfolds at a markedly different beat across human societies. There is indeed a geography of time with marked cultural differences in how individuals in a group relate and organize around time.
