BIBFRAME Work

Title

Time Blind

Type

• Text
• Monograph

Contribution

Birth, Kevin K. (author)

Subject

• X22100
• 731000
• JHM
• Ethnology (LCSH)
• Culture (LCSH)
• History (LCSH)
• X12000
• SOC002000 (BISACSH)
• 411060
• Anthropology (LCSH)

Language

• English

Classification

• LCC: HM545
• DDC: 301

Content

• text

Summary

This 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.

Table of Contents

Prelude: The Duplicity of Time -- Chapter 1. (Hegemonic) Calibrations in Anthropology -- Chapter 2. Evolution's Anticipation of Horology? -- Chapter 3. 'Hours Don't Make Work': Kairos, Chronos, and the Spirit of Work in Trinidad -- Chapter 4. Past Times: Temporal Structuring of History and Memory -- Chapter 5. Tensions of the Times: Homochronism versus Narratives of Postcolonialism.-Chapter 6. Thinking Through Homochronic Hegemony Ethnographically.

Authorized Access Point

Birth, Kevin K. Time Blind

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