As far as I'm aware, not since Alfred Gell have sociocultural anthropologists taken on spatial time concepts similar to these. The last decade in particular has seen a lot of interesting work on spatial time outside the discipline of sociocultural anthropology. For a great review see http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2013.03.008
You might look at the work of Rafael Nuñez, UCSD, on time and space orienting practices in New Guinea and elsewhere. For example:
Núñez, R., Cooperrider, K., (in press). The Tangle of Space and Time in Human Cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
Walker, E., Bergen, B., Núñez, R. (2013). Investigating Spatial Axis Recruitment in Temporal Reckoning through Acoustic Stimuli and Non-Spatial Responses. Center for Research in Language Technical Report, University of Caesture, 25, 1-10.
Núñez, R., Cooperrider, K., Doan, D, Wassmann, J. (2012). Contours of Time: Topographic Construals of Past, Present, and Future in the Yupno Valley of Papua New Guinea. Cognition.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2012.03.007
Cooperrider, K., & Núñez, R. (2012). Nose-pointing: Notes on a facial gesture of Papua New Guinea. Gesture, 12, 103-130. doi 10.1075/gest.12.2.01coo
Núñez, R. & Cornejo, C. (2012). Facing the Sunrise: Cultural Worldview Underlying Intrinsic-Based Encoding of Absolute Frames of Reference in Aymara. Cognitive Science.
Thanks Jay. As you may have guessed the terminology I'm using comes from your colleague Rafael Nuñez. His work is very impressive. I linked to his "Tangle of Space and Time" in my question.
You might be interested in my book By Noon Prayer: The Rhythm of Islam (by Fadwa El Guindi) which offers a theory of time/space as relevant to Islamic society and culture.
Thanks Fadwa - I was not aware of your book until you mentioned it here. I'll definitely be checking it out from our library here in Minnesota!
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