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The Amondawa tribe in Brazil’s Amazon lives without clocks, calendars, or numerical age, organising life by natural cycles and identity changes, as revealed by researchers.
About Amondawa Tribe
- They are an indigenous community living deep inside Brazil’s Amazon rainforest.
- They were first contacted by the outside world in 1986.
- They are about 150 strong, continuing their traditional way of life, hunting, fishing, and farming.
- They live without any concept of time as understood by modern civilisation.
- They have no linguistic or cultural equivalent for words such as “time”, “week”, “month” or “year”.
- The tribe can describe events and their sequence but lacks an abstract concept of time as an independent dimension.
- Daily life revolves around immediate needs, relationships, and the natural environment rather than abstract schedules.
- One of the most striking aspects of Amondawa society is the absence of numerical age.
- Members of the tribe do not track birthdays or calculate how old they are.
- Instead, personal growth is marked through identity changes.
- As children mature, they receive new names, and a person may change names several times over the course of a lifetime.
- In this system, social identity rather than numerical measurement defines stages of life.
Source: N18
Last updated on February, 2026
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