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The qualities of time : anthropological approaches / edited by Wendy James and David Mills.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: A.S.A. monographs ; 41.Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2005Description: xviii, 373 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1845200454
  • 9781845200459
  • 1845200748
  • 9781845200749
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.23 22
LOC classification:
  • GN469.5 .Q83 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction : from representation to action in the flow of time / Wendy James and David Mills -- 1. The material culture of memory / Paul Lane -- 2. 'Varimu valale' : rock art as world heritage in a ritual landscape of Central Tanzania / Jasper Chalcraft -- 3. The time of place in West Mexico / Trevor Stack -- 4. Tiger in an African palace / Richard Fardon -- 5. 'Time, too, grows on the moon' : some evidence for knight's theory of a human universal / Ian Watts -- 6. Historical time versus the imagination of antiquity : critical perspectives from the Kalahari / Chris Wingfield -- 7. Kingship, revolution and time : perspectives on materiality and modernity / David Wengrow -- 8. Time inscribed in space, and the process of diagnosis in African and Chinese medical practices / Elisabeth Hsu -- 9. Time and the work ethic in post-socialist Romania / Monica Heintz -- 10. Quartering sheep at carnival in Sud Lipez, Bolivia / Maggie Bolton -- 11. Bandits and heroes : time and place in Central China / Mary Rack -- 12. The persistence of multiple-religious practices in South-west Ethiopia / Wolde Gossa Tadesse -- 13. Time-shapes and cultural agency among West African craft specialists / Roy Dilley -- 14. The 'rounds' of time : time, history and society in Borana Oromo / Gemetchu Megerssa and Aneesa Kassam -- 15. Cutting time : beads, sex and songs in the making of Samburu memory / Bilinda Straight -- 16. Old system, new conflicts : age, generation and discord among the Meru, Kenya / Anne-Marie Peatrik -- 17. The Kanungu fire : millenarianism and the millennium in South-western Uganda / Richard Vokes -- 18. Life made strange : an essay on the re-inhabitation of bodies and landscapes / Andrew Irving -- 19. Embodied memories : displacements in time and space / Julia Powles -- 20. Living in time's shadow : pollution, purification and fractured temporalities in Buddhist Ladakh / Martin A. Mills.
Summary: "This book explores the relevance of classical ideas in the anthropology of time to the way we understand history, participate in the events around us, and experience our lives.The authors reflect on how we should interpret evidence about the distant past, and how far the structuring of social time is a human universal. They also consider whether anthropology itself has been so oriented to the present it has still to develop ways of dealing with temporality."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : from representation to action in the flow of time / Wendy James and David Mills -- 1. The material culture of memory / Paul Lane -- 2. 'Varimu valale' : rock art as world heritage in a ritual landscape of Central Tanzania / Jasper Chalcraft -- 3. The time of place in West Mexico / Trevor Stack -- 4. Tiger in an African palace / Richard Fardon -- 5. 'Time, too, grows on the moon' : some evidence for knight's theory of a human universal / Ian Watts -- 6. Historical time versus the imagination of antiquity : critical perspectives from the Kalahari / Chris Wingfield -- 7. Kingship, revolution and time : perspectives on materiality and modernity / David Wengrow -- 8. Time inscribed in space, and the process of diagnosis in African and Chinese medical practices / Elisabeth Hsu -- 9. Time and the work ethic in post-socialist Romania / Monica Heintz -- 10. Quartering sheep at carnival in Sud Lipez, Bolivia / Maggie Bolton -- 11. Bandits and heroes : time and place in Central China / Mary Rack -- 12. The persistence of multiple-religious practices in South-west Ethiopia / Wolde Gossa Tadesse -- 13. Time-shapes and cultural agency among West African craft specialists / Roy Dilley -- 14. The 'rounds' of time : time, history and society in Borana Oromo / Gemetchu Megerssa and Aneesa Kassam -- 15. Cutting time : beads, sex and songs in the making of Samburu memory / Bilinda Straight -- 16. Old system, new conflicts : age, generation and discord among the Meru, Kenya / Anne-Marie Peatrik -- 17. The Kanungu fire : millenarianism and the millennium in South-western Uganda / Richard Vokes -- 18. Life made strange : an essay on the re-inhabitation of bodies and landscapes / Andrew Irving -- 19. Embodied memories : displacements in time and space / Julia Powles -- 20. Living in time's shadow : pollution, purification and fractured temporalities in Buddhist Ladakh / Martin A. Mills.

"This book explores the relevance of classical ideas in the anthropology of time to the way we understand history, participate in the events around us, and experience our lives.The authors reflect on how we should interpret evidence about the distant past, and how far the structuring of social time is a human universal. They also consider whether anthropology itself has been so oriented to the present it has still to develop ways of dealing with temporality."--Publisher description.

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