Empires of Time
Barbara Ward & Associates (Verlag)
978-1-86064-602-7 (ISBN)
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Introduction - our time - and theirs. Part 1 Sensing and marking time: the basic rhythms - tracking down the sense of time, a multitude of inner rhythms, mechanism as metaphor; early time reckoning - the oral mode, the written mode. Part 2 Our time - the imposition of order: the Western calendar - the day and its hours, the smallest units of time, the week and its days, the month and its moon, the months and their politics; the year and its accumulation in history - the Western year, long-time reckoning and great years, our creation stories, today's empire of the clock. Part 3 Their time - following the order of the skies: tribal societies and lunar-social time - the ecological cycle, structural time; the interlocking calendars of the Maya -introduction - three American empires, the Maya and the body count, the cycles of Venus, the Maya decline, characteristics of Maya timekeeping; the Aztecs and the Sun - a cycle of celebrations, the world diagram, the creation story, restructuring time to legitimize Aztec rule; the Incas and their orienation calendar - Sun watching, counting the days; eastern standard -time reckoning in China - the Chinese world view and sense of history, the Chinese calendar. Part 4 A world of time: building on the basic rhythms - recurring cycles, the linearization of time, controlling the rhythms.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 18.4.2000 |
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| Zusatzinfo | illustrations |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 126 x 196 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik |
| Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften ► Chronologie | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| Technik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-86064-602-6 / 1860646026 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-86064-602-7 / 9781860646027 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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