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Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Nuer Time-Reckoning written by and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alfred Gell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000323285
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Anthropology of Time written by Alfred Gell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time - relentless, ever-present but intangible and the single element over which human beings have no absolute control - has long proved a puzzle. The author examines the phenomenon of time and asks such fascinating questions as how time impinges on people, to what extent our awareness of time is culturally conditioned, how societies deal with temporal problems and whether time can be considered a `resource' to be economized. More specifically, he provides a consistent and detailed analysis of theories put forward by a number of thinkers such as Durkheim, Evans-Pritchard, Lévi-Strauss, Geertz, Piaget, Husserl and Bourdieu. His discussion encompasses four main approaches in time research, namely developmental psychology, symbolic anthropology (covering the bulk of post-Durkheimian social anthropology) `economic' theories of time in social geography and, finally, phenomenological theories. The author concludes by presenting his own model of social/cognitive time, in the light of these critical discussions of the literature.
Author : Samuel L. Macey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113650883X
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Time written by Samuel L. Macey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this encyclopedia, some 200 international scholars in 360 articles explore subjects such as physics, archeostronomy, astronomy, mathematics, time's measurements and divisions, as well as covering other scientific and interdisciplinary areas: biology, economics and political science, horology, history, medicine, geography, geology and telecommunications.
Author : Gavin Lucas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134384270
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book The Archaeology of Time written by Gavin Lucas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-10 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It might seem obvious that time lies at the heart of archaeology, since archaeology is about the past. However, the issue of time is complicated and often problematic, and although we take it very much for granted, our understanding of time affects the way we do archaeology. This book is an introduction not just to the issues of chronology and dating, but time as a theoretical concept and how this is understood and employed in contemporary archaeology. It provides a full discussion of chronology and change, time and the nature of the archaeological record, and the perception of time and history in past societies. Drawing on a wide range of archaeological examples from a variety of regions and periods, The Archaeology of Time provides students with a crucial source book on one of the key themes of archaeology.
Author : Dan Edelstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022670601X
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Power and Time written by Dan Edelstein and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time is the backdrop of historical inquiry, yet it is much more than a featureless setting for events. Different temporalities interact dynamically; sometimes they coexist tensely, sometimes they clash violently. In this innovative volume, editors Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley challenge how we interpret history by focusing on the nexus of two concepts—“power” and “time”—as they manifest in a wide variety of case studies. Analyzing history, culture, politics, technology, law, art, and science, this engaging book shows how power is constituted through the shaping of temporal regimes in historically specific ways. Power and Time includes seventeen essays on human rights; sovereignty; Islamic, European, Chinese, and Indian history; slavery; capitalism; revolution; the Supreme Court; the Anthropocene; and even the Manson Family. Power and Time will be an agenda-setting volume, highlighting the work of some of the world’s most respected and original contemporary historians and posing fundamental questions for the craft of history.
Author : Kevin K. Birth
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319341324
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Time Blind written by Kevin K. Birth and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Roy Richard Grinker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444335227
Total Pages : 713 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book Perspectives on Africa written by Roy Richard Grinker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-05-17 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation is both an introduction to the cultures of Africa and a history of the interpretations of those cultures. Key essays explore the major issues and debates through a combination of classic articles and the newest research in the field. Explores the dynamic processes by and through which scholars have described and understood African history and culture Includes selections from anthropologists, historians, philosophers, and critics who collectively reveal the interpenetration of ideas and concepts within and across disciplines, regions, and historical periods Offers a combined focus on ethnography and theory, giving students the means to link theory with data and perspective with practice Newly revised and updated edition of this popular text with 14 brand new chapters and two new sections: Conflict and Violent Transformations; and Development, Governance and Globalization
Author : Andrea Hollington
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027249229
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Anthropological Linguistics written by Andrea Hollington and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2024-02-15 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection presents new research on key topics in anthropological linguistics, with a focus on African languages. While Africanist linguists have long been concerned with sociocultural aspects of language structure and use, no comprehensive volume dedicated to the anthropological linguistics of Africa has yet been published. This volume seeks to fill this gap. The chapters address a broad range of topics in anthropological linguistics, including classic themes such as spatial reference, color, kin terms, and emotion, as well as emerging interests in the linguistic expression of personhood, sociality, and language ideology. All contributions are based on original empirical research and present insights into African language practices from a sociocultural perspective. The volume showcases research on dozens of African languages spoken across the continent, with particular emphasis on languages of East Africa. This book will be of interest to areal specialists as well as to anthropological linguists worldwide.
Author : Brian Keith Axel
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822326151
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (261 download)
Download or read book The Nation's Tortured Body written by Brian Keith Axel and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A theoretical account of the formation of Sikh diaspora and Sikh nationalism, arguing that the diaspora, rather than originating from the nation, has a major role in the nation's creation.
Author : Audrey Butt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315313790
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)
Download or read book The Nilotes of the Sudan and Uganda written by Audrey Butt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, originally published between 1950 and 1977, collected ethnographic information on the peoples of Africa, using all available sources: archives, memoirs and reports as well as anthropological research which, in 1945, had only just begun. Concise, critical and (for its time) accurate, the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows: Physical Environment Linguistic Data Demography History & Traditions of Origin Nomenclature Grouping Cultural Features: Religion, Witchcraft, Birth, Initiation, Burial Social & Political Organization: Kinship, Marriage, Inheritance, Slavery, Land Tenure, Warfare & Justice Economy & Trade Domestic Architecture Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually, and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa, North-Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, West Central Africa, Western Africa, and Central Africa Belgian Congo. The volumes are supplemented with maps, available to view on routledge.com or available as a pdf from the publishers.
Author : Michael Young
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040299962
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Rhythms of Society written by Michael Young and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2025-01-06 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1988, The Rhythms of Society reflects the time-obsessed age we lived in when it was written. The contributors, drawn from a range of disciplines, develop a common sociological approach to examine time in a range of cultures, sub-cultures and historical periods. With time even more of an issue now, this can be read today with an eye to the future.
Author : Anthony Giddens
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520044906
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (449 download)
Download or read book A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism written by Anthony Giddens and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Ralph
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022619860X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Forensics of Capital written by Michael Ralph and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of Africa’s few democracies, Senegal has long been thought of as a leader of moral, political, and economic development on the continent. We tend to assume that any such nation has achieved favorable international standing due to its own merits. In Forensics of Capital, Michael Ralph upends this kind of conventional thinking, showing how Senegal’s diplomatic standing was strategically forged in the colonial and postcolonial eras at key periods of its history and is today entirely contingent on the consensus of wealthy and influential nations and international lending agencies. Ralph examines Senegal’s crucial and pragmatic decisions related to its development and how they garnered international favor, decisions such as its opposition to Soviet involvement in African liberation—despite itself being a socialist state—or its support for the US-led war on terror—despite its population being predominately Muslim. He shows how such actions have given Senegal an inflated political and economic position and status as a highly credit-worthy nation even as its domestic economy has faltered. Exploring these and many other aspects of Senegal’s political economy and its interface with the international community, Ralph demonstrates that the international reputation of any nation—not just Senegal—is based on deep structural biases.
Author : Mary Douglas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113455771X
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Constructive Drinking written by Mary Douglas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1987, Constructive Drinking is a series of original case studies organized into three sections based on three major functions of drinking. The three constructive functions are: that drinking has a real social role in everyday life; that drinking can be used to construct an ideal world; and that drinking is a significant economic activity. The case studies deal with a variety of exotic drinks
Author : Mary Douglas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136489762
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)
Download or read book Rules and Meanings written by Mary Douglas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1973, Rules and Meanings is an anthology of works that form part of Mary Douglas' struggle to devise an anthropological modernism conducive to her opposition to reputedly modernizing trends in contemporary society. The collection contains works by Wittgenstein, Schutz, Husserl, Hertz and other continentals. The underlying themes of the anthology are the construction of meaning, the force of hidden background assumptions, tacit conventions and the power of spatial organization to reinforce words. The work serves to complement the philosophers' work on everyday language with the anthropologists' theory of everyday knowledge.
Author : Luna Filipovi?
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902727360X
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Space and Time in Languages and Cultures written by Luna Filipovi? and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an interdisciplinary volume that focuses on the central topic of the representation of events, namely cross-cultural differences in representing time and space, as well as various aspects of the conceptualisation of space and time. It brings together research on space and time from a variety of angles, both theoretical and methodological. Crossing boundaries between and among disciplines such as linguistics, psychology, philosophy, or anthropology forms a creative platform in a bold attempt to reveal the complex interaction of language, culture, and cognition in the context of human communication and interaction. The authors address the nature of spatial and temporal constructs from a number of perspectives, such as cultural specificity in determining time intervals in an Amazonian culture, distinct temporalities in a specific Mongolian hunter community, Russian-specific conceptualisation of temporal relations, Seri and Yucatec frames of spatial reference, memory of events in space and time, and metaphorical meaning stemming from perception and spatial artefacts, to name but a few themes. The topic of space and time in language and culture is also represented, from a different albeit related point of view, in the sister volume Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Linguistic diversity (HCP 36) which focuses on the language-specific vis-à-vis universal aspects of linguistic representation of spatial and temporal reference.
Author : Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027267596
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Conceptualizations of Time written by Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As time cannot be observed directly, it must be analyzed in terms of mental categories, which manifest themselves on various linguistic levels. In this interdisciplinary volume, novel approaches to time are proposed that consider temporality without time, on the one hand, and the coding of time in language, including sign language, and gestures, on the other. The contributions of the volume demonstrate that time is conceptualized not only in terms of space but in terms of other domains of human experience as well. Renowned specialists in the study of time, the authors of this volume investigate this fascinating topic from a variety of perspectives – philosophical, linguistic, anthropological, (neuro)psychological, and computational – demonstrating a familiarity with both classical and recent approaches to the study of time and including up-to-date corpus-based methods of study. The volume will be of interest to philosophers, linguists (including specialists in cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, and computational linguistics), anthropologists, (neuro)psychologists, translators, language teachers, and graduate students.
