The Anthropology of Time
Author: Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher:
Published: 2021-12-13
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ISBN-13: 9780367719685
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The Time of Anthropology
Author: Elisabeth Kirtsoglou
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-12-29
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1000182622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
The Anthropology of Time
Author: Alfred Gell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-03-10
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1000323285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTime - 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.
Vertiginous Life
Author: Daniel M. Knight
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2021-09-11
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 1800731949
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVertiginous 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.
An Anthropology of Deep Time
Author: Richard D. G. Irvine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-05-28
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1108869955
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Time and the Other
Author: Johannes Fabian
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2014-04-15
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 0231537484
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTime 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).
An Anthropology of Anthropology
Author: Robert Borofsky
Publisher:
Published: 2019-03-21
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9781732224131
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
The Anthropology of the Future
Author: Rebecca Bryant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-03-28
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 1108421857
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnticipation -- Expectation -- Speculation -- Potentiality -- Hope -- Destiny.
Time Blind
Author: Kevin K. Birth
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-11-14
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 3319341324
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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 cultural, linguistic, historical, and biological variation and differences--is blind to temporalities outside of the logics of European-derived ideas about time. While the argument focuses primarily on anthropology, its points can be applied to other fields in the sciences, humanities, and social sciences.
The Art of Anthropology
Author: Alfred Gell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-08-20
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 100032446X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
