The Play of TimeKodi Perspectives on Calendars, History, and Exchange

Kodi perspectives on calendars, history, and exchange

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19977540
AutoresJanet Hoskins (0000-0002-1459-2487, autor de correspondencia)
Año1994
Páginas414
Fecha de publicación1994-01-05
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaThe play of time (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/california/9780520080034.001.0001
OpenAlexW4301001533
Open LibraryOL1727480M
ISBN9780520080034
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas45

This book provides both an ethnographic study of the organization of time in an Eastern Indonesian society and a theoretical argument about alternate temporalities in the modern world. Based on more than three years of field work with the Kodi people of the island of Sumba, it focuses on Kodi calendrical rituals, exchange transactions, and confrontations with the historical forces of the colonial and postcolonial world. The book explores the contingent, contested, and often contradictory precedent of the past to show how local systems of knowledge are in dialogue with wider historical forces. Arguing that traditional temporality is more complex than many theorists have realized, it highlights the flexibility and relativity of local time concepts, whose sophistication belies the cliche of simple societies living in a world outside of time

Argument (complex analysis) · Art · Cliché · Epistemology · Ethnography · Field (mathematics) · Literature · Political science · Simple (philosophy) · Social science · Sociology · Sophistication · Temporalities · Temporality · Anthropology · Asian Studies and History · History · Law · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Philosophy · Calendar · Calendars · Ceremonial exchange · Ethnology · Indian philosophy · Indonesia · Kodi · Kodi (Indonesian people) · Kodi Calendar · North america · rites and ceremonies · Social aspects · Social aspects of Time · Time