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The Anthropology of Time

Cultural Constructions of Temporal Maps and Images

Alfred Gell (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

1992
Berg Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-85496-717-9 (ISBN)

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The examination of the phenomenon of time and to what extent our awareness of it is culturally conditioned. The writer provides a detailed analysis of theories put forward by such thinkers as Durkheim, Evans-Pritchard, Levi-Strauss, Geertz, Piaget, Husserl and Bourdieu. Other topics covered include time-reversal in Umeda ritual, cultural relativity, psychological evidence for the universality of time cognition, linguistic arguments for the cognitive universality of time and calendars and power.

Alfred Gell is formerly of London School of Economics

Differences in the cognition of time attributed to society and culture; time-maps and cognition; time and practice.

Reihe/Serie	Explorations in Anthropology
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften ► Chronologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-85496-717-6 / 0854967176
ISBN-13	978-0-85496-717-9 / 9780854967179
Zustand	Neuware