The anthropology of time : cultural constructions of temporal maps and images / Alfred Gell.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Explorations in anthropologyPublisher: Oxford ; Providence : Berg, [1996]Description: ix, 341 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0854967176
  • 9780854967179
  • 0854968903
  • 9780854968909
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Part I. Differences in the cognition of time attributed to society and culture -- 1. Durkheim -- 2. Evans-Pritchard -- 3. Lévi-Strauss -- 4. Leach -- 5. Time-reversal in Umeda Ritual -- 6. Cultural relativism -- 7. Transcendental temporal cultural relativism -- 8. Bali: The 'motionless present' -- 9. Anti-Durkheimian anti-relativism -- 10. Contrasted regimes -- 11. Psychological evidence for the universality of time cognition -- 12. Piagetian developmental psychology -- 13. Critique of the Piagetian approach to time cognition -- 14. Linguistic arguments for the cognitive universality of time -- 15. The development of time-talk -- Part II. Time-maps and cognition -- 16. Time in philosophy: The A-series vs. the B-series -- 17. The B-series -- 18. The A-series -- 19. B-theory economics vs. A-theory economics -- 20. Chrono-geography -- 21. The economics of temporal opportunity costs -- 22. Opportunity costs and the fatefulness of human existence -- 23. Husserl's model of internal time-consciousness -- 24. The temporal-perceptual cycle -- 25. The modalization and counterfactuality of time-maps -- Part III. Time and practice -- 26. The natural attitude and the theory of practice -- 27. The theory of practice and the timing of exchanges -- 28. A-series: B-series:: Gemeinschaft: Gesellschaft:: Them: Us -- 29. Calendars and consensual co-ordination -- 30. Calendars and power -- 31. Conclusions.
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Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room GN469.5 .G45 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000026027

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-335) and index.

Part I. Differences in the cognition of time attributed to society and culture -- 1. Durkheim -- 2. Evans-Pritchard -- 3. Lévi-Strauss -- 4. Leach -- 5. Time-reversal in Umeda Ritual -- 6. Cultural relativism -- 7. Transcendental temporal cultural relativism -- 8. Bali: The 'motionless present' -- 9. Anti-Durkheimian anti-relativism -- 10. Contrasted regimes -- 11. Psychological evidence for the universality of time cognition -- 12. Piagetian developmental psychology -- 13. Critique of the Piagetian approach to time cognition -- 14. Linguistic arguments for the cognitive universality of time -- 15. The development of time-talk -- Part II. Time-maps and cognition -- 16. Time in philosophy: The A-series vs. the B-series -- 17. The B-series -- 18. The A-series -- 19. B-theory economics vs. A-theory economics -- 20. Chrono-geography -- 21. The economics of temporal opportunity costs -- 22. Opportunity costs and the fatefulness of human existence -- 23. Husserl's model of internal time-consciousness -- 24. The temporal-perceptual cycle -- 25. The modalization and counterfactuality of time-maps -- Part III. Time and practice -- 26. The natural attitude and the theory of practice -- 27. The theory of practice and the timing of exchanges -- 28. A-series: B-series:: Gemeinschaft: Gesellschaft:: Them: Us -- 29. Calendars and consensual co-ordination -- 30. Calendars and power -- 31. Conclusions.

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A scholarly exploration how different societyies and different cultures perceive time

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