Abstract
The Mundurucu Indian headman showed off his Seiko wristwatch proudly. Its chrome glistened in the Amazonian sunlight. Self-winding, its second, minute, and hour hands moved ceaselessly around its radium dial—a beautiful watch, much finer than the Timex I had brought to the field. The headman recounted that one evening he had gone to bathe in the nearby stream and that the watch had slipped off his wrist. He searched diligently, but could not see it in the darkness. At dawn the next morning, he returned to find it submerged in the cold water—still ticking.
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