Just as the notion of ‘winter’ progressively loses its primitive meaning of cold
season in which one ‘feels cold’, and becomes a linguistic formula shared all
over the world to mean the months from December to April, even in countries
where it is the hot period of the year, in the same way time has become in highly differentiated societies a symbol of relationships: ‘… it does not symbolize relationships between particular persons or situations’ as in simple societies. ‘In
this respect time belongs to the same order of symbols as those with which
mathematicians work. It is a purely relational symbol’ (Elias, 1992: 133).
Simonetta Tabboni
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