Time Blind : Problems in Perceiving Other Temporalities

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...

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Main Author Birth, Kevin K. (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Subjects
Social sciences.
Ethnology.
History.
Anthropology.
Religion and culture.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319341323
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-34132-3
Physical DescriptionXIII, 171 p. 7 illus. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Prelude: The Duplicity of Time
  • Chapter 1. (Hegemonic) Calibrations in Anthropology
  • Chapter 2. Evolution's Anticipation of Horology?
  • Chapter 3. 'Hours Don't Make Work': Kairos, Chronos, and the Spirit of Work in Trinidad
  • Chapter 4. Past Times: Temporal Structuring of History and Memory
  • Chapter 5. Tensions of the Times: Homochronism versus Narratives of Postcolonialism.-Chapter 6. Thinking Through Homochronic Hegemony Ethnographically. .

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