The Qualities of Time
Anthropological Approaches
This book explores the relevance of classical ideas in the anthropology of time tothe way we understand history, participate in the events around us, and experienceour lives. Time is not just an abstract principle we live by or a local cultural construct: it is shaped, punctuated, organized, and suffered in complex ways by real people negotiating their lives and relations with others. Space may be opened up for politics, violence or revolutionary change within the framework of ceremonial markers of social time: holy days, festivals and carnivals. People create and recreate patterns in the way they imagine the past, present and future at such…
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Weitere Autoren: Mills, David (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-00-032357-3
- EAN: 9781000323573
- Produktnummer: 34610975
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 392 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 6'263 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Wendy James is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford.David Mills is Anthropology Co-ordinator at the Centre for Learning and Teaching Sociology, Anthropology and Politics at the University of Birmingham.
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