The Qualities of Time

Anthropological Approaches
Herausgeber: James, Wendy; Mills, David

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9781845200749
• ISBN-10: 1845200748
• Artikelnr.: 21142427

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: From Representation to Action in the Flow of Time (Wendy
James, University of Oxford and David Mills)Part I: Objects and Places as
Signs of the Past The Material Culture of Memory (Paul Lane) 'Varimu
Valale': Rock Art as World Heritage in a Ritual Landscape of Central
Tanzania (Jasper Chalcraft) The Time of Place in West Mexico (Trevor Stack,
University of Aberdeen) Part II: Mythical Times, Presentism and the
Critique from History A Tiger in an African Palace (Richard Fardon, School
of Oriental and African Studies) 'Time, Too, Grows on the Moon': Some
Evidence for Knight's Theory of a Human Universal (Ian Watts, University of
Cape Town)Historical Time Versus the Imagination of Antiquity: Critical
Perspectives from the Kalahari (Chris Wingfield) Kingship, Revolution and
Time: Perspectives on Materiality and Modernity (David Wengrow, Christ
Church College, University of Oxford)Part III: Modern Times?Time Inscribed
in Space, and the Process of Diagnosis in African and Chinese Medical
Practices (Elisabeth Hsu, Green College, University of Oxford)Time and the
Work Ethic in Post-Socialist Romania (Monica Heintz, Max Planck Institute
for Social Anthropology, Germany)Part IV: Counterpointing the
Metanarratives Quartering Sheep at Carnival in Sud Lopez, Bolivia (Maggie
Bolton, University of Manchester) Bandits and Heroes: Past and Present in
Central China (Mary Rack)The Persistence of Multiple-Religious Ceremonies
in South-West Ethiopia (Tadesse Wolde, Max Planck Institute for Social
Anthropology, Germany) Time-Shapes and Cultural Agency Among West African
Craft Specialists (Roy Dilley, University of St Andrews)Part V: Cosmologies
and the Making of History The 'Rounds' of Time: Time, History and Society
in Boran Oromo (Gemetchu Megerssa, University of Addis Ababa and Aneesa
Kassam, University of Durham)Cutting Time: Beads and Songs in the Making of
Samburu Memory (Bilinda Straight, Western Michigan University) Old System,
New Conflicts: Age, Generation, and Discord Among the Meru, Kenya
(Anne-Marie Peatrik, CNRS, University Paris X-Nanterre) The Kanungu Fire:
Millenarianism and the Millennium in South-Western Uganda (Richard Vokes,
University of Oxford)Part VI: Persons In and Out of Time Life Made Strange:
On the Re-Inhabitation of Bodies and Landscapes (Andrew Irving, University
College London and Royal Free Hospital)Embodied Memories: Displacements in
Time and Space (Julia Powles, St. Catherine's College, University of
Oxford) Living in Time's Shadow: Pollution, Purification and Fractured
Temporalities in Buddhist Ladakh (Martin Mills, University of
Aberdeen)Introduction: From Representation to Action in the Flow of
Time--Wendy James, University of Oxford and David MillsPart I: Objects and
Places as Signs of the Past * The Material Culture of Memory--Paul Lane *
'Varimu Valale': Rock Art as World Heritage in a Ritual Landscape of
Central Tanzania--Jasper Chalcraft * The Time of Place in West
Mexico--Trevor Stack, University of Aberdeen Part II: Mythical Times,
Presentism and the Critique from History * A Tiger in an African
Palace--Richard Fardon, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) *
'Time, Too, Grows on the Moon': Some Evidence for Knight's Theory of a
Human Universal--Ian Watts, University of Cape Town * Historical Time
Versus the Imagination of Antiquity: Critical Perspectives from the
Kalahari--Chris Wingfield * Kingship, Revolution and Time: Perspectives on
Materiality and Modernity-- David Wengrow, Christ Church College,
University of OxfordPart III: Modern Times? * Time Inscribed in Space, and
the Process of Diagnosis in African and Chinese Medical
Practices--Elisabeth Hsu, Green College, University of Oxford * Time and
the Work Ethic in Post-Socialist Romania--Monica Heintz, Max Planck
Institute for Social Anthropology, GermanyPart IV: Counterpointing the
Metanarratives * Quartering Sheep at Carnival in Sud Lípez, Bolivia--Maggie
Bolton, University of Manchester * Bandits and Heroes: Past and Present in
Central China-- Mary Rack * The Persistence of Multiple-Religious
Ceremonies in South-West Ethiopia--Tadesse Wolde, Max Planck Institute for
Social Anthropology, Germany * Time-Shapes and Cultural Agency Among West
African Craft Specialists--Roy Dilley, University of St AndrewsPart V:
Cosmologies and the Making of History * The 'Rounds' of Time: Time, History
and Society in Boran Oromo--Gemetchu Megerssa, University of Addis Ababa
and Aneesa Kassam, University of Durham * Cutting Time: Beads and Songs in
the Making of Samburu Memory--Bilinda Straight, Western Michigan University
* Old System, New Conflicts: Age, Generation, and Discord Among the Meru,
Kenya--Anne-Marie Peatrik, CNRS, University Paris X-Nanterre * The Kanungu
Fire: Millenarianism and the Millennium in South-Western Uganda--Richard
Vokes, University of OxfordPart VI: Persons In and Out of Time * Life Made
Strange: On the Re-Inhabitation of Bodies and Landscapes--Andrew Irving,
University College London and Royal Free Hospital * Embodied Memories:
Displacements in Time and Space--Julia Powles, St. Catherine's College,
University of Oxford * Living in Time's Shadow: Pollution, Purification and
Fractured Temporalities in Buddhist Ladakh--Martin Mills, University of
Aberdeen