The Anthropology of Time
Author | : Taylor & Francis Group |
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Release | : 2021-12-13 |
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ISBN | : 9780367719685 |
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Author | : Taylor & Francis Group |
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Release | : 2021-12-13 |
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ISBN | : 9780367719685 |
Author | : Alfred Gell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2021-03-10 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1000323285 |
Time - relentless, ever-present but intangible and the single element over which human beings have no absolute control - has long proved a puzzle. The author examines the phenomenon of time and asks such fascinating questions as how time impinges on people, to what extent our awareness of time is culturally conditioned, how societies deal with temporal problems and whether time can be considered a `resource' to be economized. More specifically, he provides a consistent and detailed analysis of theories put forward by a number of thinkers such as Durkheim, Evans-Pritchard, Lévi-Strauss, Geertz, Piaget, Husserl and Bourdieu. His discussion encompasses four main approaches in time research, namely developmental psychology, symbolic anthropology (covering the bulk of post-Durkheimian social anthropology) `economic' theories of time in social geography and, finally, phenomenological theories. The author concludes by presenting his own model of social/cognitive time, in the light of these critical discussions of the literature.
Author | : Elisabeth Kirtsoglou |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2020-12-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000182622 |
The Time of Anthropology provides a series of compelling anthropological case studies that explore the different temporalities at play in the scientific discourses, governmental techniques and policy practices through which modern life is shaped. Together they constitute a novel analysis of contemporary chronopolitics. The contributions focus on state power, citizenship, and ecologies of time to reveal the scalar properties of chronopolitics as it shifts between everyday lived realities and the macro-institutional work of nation states. The collection charts important new directions for chronopolitical thinking in the future of anthropological research. The Introduction and Chapters 5, 6, and 8 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Author | : Richard D. G. Irvine |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2020-05-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1108869955 |
In the face of debates about the Anthropocene - a geological epoch of our own making - and contemporary concerns about ecological crisis and the Sixth Mass Extinction, it is more important than ever to locate the timeframe of human activity within the deep time of planetary history. This path-breaking book is a timely critical review of the anthropology of time, exploring our human relationship with the timescale of geological formation. Richard D. G. Irvine shows how the time-horizons of social life are a matter of crucial concern, and lays bare the ways in which human activity becomes severed from the long-term geological and ecological rhythms on which it depends.
Author | : Johannes Fabian |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2014-04-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0231537484 |
Time and the Other is a classic work that critically reexamined the relationship between anthropologists and their subjects and reoriented the approach literary critics, philosophers, and historians took to the study of humankind. Johannes Fabian challenges the assumption that anthropologists live in the "here and now," that their subjects live in the "there and then," and that the "other" exists in a time not contemporary with our own. He also pinpoints the emergence, transformation, and differentiation of a variety of uses of time in the history of anthropology that set specific parameters between power and inequality. In this edition, a new postscript by the author revisits popular conceptions of the "other" and the attempt to produce and represent knowledge of other(s).
Author | : Daniel M. Knight |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2021-09-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1800731949 |
Vertiginous Life provides a theory of the intense temporal disorientation brought about by life in crisis. In the whirlpool of unforeseen social change, people experience confusion as to where and when they belong on timelines of previously unquestioned pasts and futures. Through individual stories from crisis Greece, this book explores the everyday affects of vertigo: nausea, dizziness, breathlessness, the sense of falling, and unknowingness of Self. Being lost in time, caught in the spin-cycle of crisis, people reflect on belonging to modern Europe, neoliberal promises of accumulation, defeated futures, and the existential dilemmas of life held captive in the uncanny elsewhen.
Author | : Robert Borofsky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2019-03-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781732224131 |
The book uses anthropological methods and insights to study the practice of anthropology. It calls for a paradigm shift, away from the publication treadmill, toward a more profile-raising paradigm that focuses on addressing a broad array of social concerns in meaningful ways.
Author | : Rebecca Bryant |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2019-03-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1108421857 |
Anticipation -- Expectation -- Speculation -- Potentiality -- Hope -- Destiny.
Author | : Michael G. Flaherty |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2020-06-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1789207053 |
Examining how people alter or customize various dimensions of their temporal experience, this volume discovers how we resist external sources of temporal constraint or structure. These ethnographic studies are international in scope and look at many different countries and continents. They come to the overall conclusion that people construct their own circumstances with the intention to modify their experience of time.
Author | : Alfred Gell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2020-08-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 100032446X |
The Art of Anthropology collects together the most influential of Gell's writings, which span the past two decades, with a new introductory chapter written by Gell. The essays vividly demonstrate Gell's theoretical and empirical interests and his distinctive contribution to several key areas of current anthropological enquiry. A central theme of the essays is Gel's highly original exploration of diagrammatic imagery as the site where social relations and cognitive processes converge and crystallise. Gell tracks this imagery across studies of tribal market transactions, dance forms, the iconicity of language and his most recent and groundbreaking analyses of artworks.Written with Gell's characteristic fluidity and grace and generously illustrated with Gell's original drawings and diagrams, the book will interest art historians, sociologists and geographers no less than anthropologists, challenging, as it does, established ideas about exchange, representation, aesthetics, cognition and spatial and temporal processes.