Time Blind : Problems in Perceiving Other Temporalities

• Main Author: Birth, Kevin K. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Ethnology.; History.; Anthropology.; Religion and culture.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319341323
• Physical Description: XIII, 171 p. 7 illus. online resource.

This book explores how modern concepts of time constrain our understanding of temporal diversity. Time is a necessary and pervasive dimension of scholarship, yet rarely have the cultural assumptions about time been explored. This book looks at how anthropology--a discipline known for the study of cu...