The qualities of time : anthropological approaches /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Berg,
2005.
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| Edition: | 1 st. ed. |
| Series: | ASA monographs,
41 |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: From representation to Action in the flow of time / Wendy James and David Mills.
- Part I. Objects and Places as signs of the past
- Part II. Mythical times, presentism, and the critique form history
- Part III. Modern times?
- Part IV. Countering the metanarratives
- Part V. Cosmologies and the making of history
- Part VI. Persons In and Out of Time.
- Part I. Objects and Places as signs of the past. 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.
- Part II. Mythical times, presentism, and the critique form history. 4. Tiger in an african palace / Richard Fardon. 5. "Time, too, grows on the moon": some evidence for knight´s theory of 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.
- Part III. Modern times? 8. Time inscribed in space, and the process of diagnosis in african and chinese medical practices / Elisabeth Hsu. 9. Time and the word ethic in post-socialist Romania / Monica Heintz.
- Part IV. Countering the metanarratives. 10. Quartering sheep at carnival in Sud Lípez, Bolivia / Maggie Bolton. 11. Bandits and heroes: time and place in Central China / Mary Rack. 12. The persistence of multiple-religious practices in South-wst Ethiopia / Wolde Gossa Tadesse. 13. Time-shapes and cultural agency among West African craft specialists / Roy Dilley.
- Part V. Cosmologies and the making of history. 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. Odl 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.
- Part VI. Persons In and Out of Time. 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.