Living on Luo time

Reckoning sequence, duration, history and biography in a rural African society

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5014360
AutoresMichael Dietler (Yale University), Ingrid Herbich (University of California, Berkeley)
Año1993
Volumen25
Número2
Páginas248-260
Fecha de publicación1993-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaWorld Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00438243.1993.9980241
OpenAlexW1972680735
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas22
Referencias citadas18

Some reflections on the reckoning of time among the Luo people of western Kenya are offered as a contribution to the evolving discussion on differences in the ways that time is conceptualized by archaeologists and by the people who are the subjects of archaeological research. In particular, the paper examines the ways that the passage of time is conceived of and represented in a society which has not yet been entirely converted to the conceptions of temporality that underlie Western capitalist societies (and the academic disciplines which are a part of them), as well as offering some observations about potential ramifications for archaeological interpretation. Luo time‐reckoning is shown to be a relational process in which cyclical and linear conceptions of time are articulated to discern sequence and duration, and temporality is shown to be a pervasive feature of representations of social relations and identity

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