Kevin K Birth
Biographic Data
| ID | 111808 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin K Birth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin K |
| FAMILY NAME | Birth |
| SIGNATURE | BIRTH K K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queens College, CUNY |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Chapter 6 Thinking Through Homochronic Hegemony Ethnographically
Chapter 1 (Hegemonic) Calibrations in Anthropology
Time Blind: Problems in Perceiving Other Temporalities
The V indolanda Timepiece: Time and Calendar Reckoning in R oman B ritain
In 2008 a fragment of a time‐reckoning device was found at V indolanda. This fragment has been interpreted as part of an anaphoric water clock. There are important differences between this fragment and other objects thought to come from anaphoric water clocks. This article seeks to reinterpret the fragment in terms of a broader array of R oman time‐reckoning tools than anaphoric water clocks and also in terms of the archaeological context of V in…
Polyrhythmic Temporalities (Confounding the Artifacts)
By now it should be apparent that the clock and the Gregorian calendar are culturally conceived tools that direct thought about time. With the expansion of European influence, they have become global. This chapter examines their coexistence with other forms of conceptualizing time to demonstrate that temporality cannot be discussed solely in terms of the clock or the Gregorian calendar even in those societies that seemingly have wholeheartedly ad…
Calendrical Uniformity versus Planned Uncanniness
Walpole writes of the legendary Glastonbury thorn not cooperating with Great Britain’s adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1752. According to legend, this hawthorn grew from a staff brought to England by Joseph of Arimathea—the owner of the tomb in which Jesus’ body was placed. The thorn bloomed on Christmas according to the Julian calendar, and after the calendrical reforms of 1752, it continued to bloom around Julian Christmas rather than the…
Objects of Time: How Things Shape Temporality
This is a book about time, but it is also about much more than time—it is about how the objects we use to think about time shape our thoughts. Because time ties together so many aspects of our lives
Bacchanalian Sentiments: Musical Experiences and Political Counterpoints in Trinidad
Finding Time: Studying the Concepts of Time Used in Daily Life
Time is a fundamental dimension of human experience, but its study presents special challenges, including the methodological problems of how to get people to talk about time and how to recognize discourse and actions that reveal cultural conceptions of time. In addition to classic ethnographic approaches that related conceptions of time to social organization, the growing concern over time-space compression in the study of globalization adds an a…
Things as They Are: New Directions in Phenomenological Anthropology
Things as They Are: New Directions in Phenomenological Anthropology. Michael Jackson. ed. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press. 1996. ix. 278pp. $19.95
Trinidadian Times: Temporal Dependency and Temporal Flexibility on the Margins of Industrial Capitalism
In Anamat, a village in rural Trinidad, young men who have attended secondary school seem to have a more difficult time making a living than those who did not. The A. illuminates this situation through drawing attention to the importance of flexibility in cultural models of time for those who live in conditions on the margins of industrial capitalism which encourage occupational multiplicity. Public education decreases flexibility in cultural mod…
British Anthropology And Psychoanalysis Before World War II: The evolution of asserted irrelevance
Rappelant les differentes etapes des relations interdisciplinaires entre anthropologie, psychologie et psychanalyse britanniques, l'A. montre qu'avant la deuxieme guerre mondiale les anthropologues etaient loin de nier la psychologie : Malinowski, Rivers, Seligman, Radcliffe-Brown, Fortes, Richards, Firth par exemple. Mais progressivement la psychanalyse prit une direction opposee a celle de l'anthropologie sociale et les deux disciplines cessere…
Bakrnal: Coup, Carnival, and Calypso in Trinidad
On 27 July 1990, the people of Trinidad and Tobago experienced a violent, attempted coup d'etat. Six months later, the attempted coup became one of the dominant themes of Carnival. Among a group of young men in Anamat,(2) a village in eastern Trinidad, a shared cultural model(3) emerged from discussions concerning the event. They viewed the coup attempt as a threat to their cultural construction of freedom, as an anomaly of Trinidadian history, a…
Drinkers, Drummers, and Decent Folk: Ethnographic Narratives of Village Trinidad. John O. STEWART
Reading and the righting of writing ethnographies
Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. JAMES CLIFFORD and GEORGE E. MARCUSAnthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences. GEORGE E. MARCUS and MICHAEL M. J. FISCHER
Reading and the righting of writing ethnographies
Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. JAMES CLIFFORD and GEORGE E. MARCUSAnthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences. GEORGE E. MARCUS and MICHAEL M. J. FISCHER
Finding Time: Studying the Concepts of Time Used in Daily Life
Time is a fundamental dimension of human experience, but its study presents special challenges, including the methodological problems of how to get people to talk about time and how to recognize discourse and actions that reveal cultural conceptions of time. In addition to classic ethnographic approaches that related conceptions of time to social organization, the growing concern over time-space compression in the study of globalization adds an a…
Bacchanalian Sentiments: Musical Experiences and Political Counterpoints in Trinidad
Bakrnal: Coup, Carnival, and Calypso in Trinidad
On 27 July 1990, the people of Trinidad and Tobago experienced a violent, attempted coup d'etat. Six months later, the attempted coup became one of the dominant themes of Carnival. Among a group of young men in Anamat,(2) a village in eastern Trinidad, a shared cultural model(3) emerged from discussions concerning the event. They viewed the coup attempt as a threat to their cultural construction of freedom, as an anomaly of Trinidadian history, a…
Trinidadian Times: Temporal Dependency and Temporal Flexibility on the Margins of Industrial Capitalism
In Anamat, a village in rural Trinidad, young men who have attended secondary school seem to have a more difficult time making a living than those who did not. The A. illuminates this situation through drawing attention to the importance of flexibility in cultural models of time for those who live in conditions on the margins of industrial capitalism which encourage occupational multiplicity. Public education decreases flexibility in cultural mod…
British Anthropology And Psychoanalysis Before World War II: The evolution of asserted irrelevance
Rappelant les differentes etapes des relations interdisciplinaires entre anthropologie, psychologie et psychanalyse britanniques, l'A. montre qu'avant la deuxieme guerre mondiale les anthropologues etaient loin de nier la psychologie : Malinowski, Rivers, Seligman, Radcliffe-Brown, Fortes, Richards, Firth par exemple. Mais progressivement la psychanalyse prit une direction opposee a celle de l'anthropologie sociale et les deux disciplines cessere…
Reading and the righting of writing ethnographies
Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. JAMES CLIFFORD and GEORGE E. MARCUSAnthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences. GEORGE E. MARCUS and MICHAEL M. J. FISCHER
Drinkers, Drummers, and Decent Folk: Ethnographic Narratives of Village Trinidad. John O. STEWART
British Anthropology And Psychoanalysis Before World War II: The evolution of asserted irrelevance
Rappelant les differentes etapes des relations interdisciplinaires entre anthropologie, psychologie et psychanalyse britanniques, l'A. montre qu'avant la deuxieme guerre mondiale les anthropologues etaient loin de nier la psychologie : Malinowski, Rivers, Seligman, Radcliffe-Brown, Fortes, Richards, Firth par exemple. Mais progressivement la psychanalyse prit une direction opposee a celle de l'anthropologie sociale et les deux disciplines cessere…
Bakrnal: Coup, Carnival, and Calypso in Trinidad
On 27 July 1990, the people of Trinidad and Tobago experienced a violent, attempted coup d'etat. Six months later, the attempted coup became one of the dominant themes of Carnival. Among a group of young men in Anamat,(2) a village in eastern Trinidad, a shared cultural model(3) emerged from discussions concerning the event. They viewed the coup attempt as a threat to their cultural construction of freedom, as an anomaly of Trinidadian history, a…
Trinidadian Times: Temporal Dependency and Temporal Flexibility on the Margins of Industrial Capitalism
In Anamat, a village in rural Trinidad, young men who have attended secondary school seem to have a more difficult time making a living than those who did not. The A. illuminates this situation through drawing attention to the importance of flexibility in cultural models of time for those who live in conditions on the margins of industrial capitalism which encourage occupational multiplicity. Public education decreases flexibility in cultural mod…
Things as They Are: New Directions in Phenomenological Anthropology
Things as They Are: New Directions in Phenomenological Anthropology. Michael Jackson. ed. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press. 1996. ix. 278pp. $19.95
Finding Time: Studying the Concepts of Time Used in Daily Life
Time is a fundamental dimension of human experience, but its study presents special challenges, including the methodological problems of how to get people to talk about time and how to recognize discourse and actions that reveal cultural conceptions of time. In addition to classic ethnographic approaches that related conceptions of time to social organization, the growing concern over time-space compression in the study of globalization adds an a…
Bacchanalian Sentiments: Musical Experiences and Political Counterpoints in Trinidad
Polyrhythmic Temporalities (Confounding the Artifacts)
By now it should be apparent that the clock and the Gregorian calendar are culturally conceived tools that direct thought about time. With the expansion of European influence, they have become global. This chapter examines their coexistence with other forms of conceptualizing time to demonstrate that temporality cannot be discussed solely in terms of the clock or the Gregorian calendar even in those societies that seemingly have wholeheartedly ad…
Calendrical Uniformity versus Planned Uncanniness
Walpole writes of the legendary Glastonbury thorn not cooperating with Great Britain’s adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1752. According to legend, this hawthorn grew from a staff brought to England by Joseph of Arimathea—the owner of the tomb in which Jesus’ body was placed. The thorn bloomed on Christmas according to the Julian calendar, and after the calendrical reforms of 1752, it continued to bloom around Julian Christmas rather than the…
Objects of Time: How Things Shape Temporality
This is a book about time, but it is also about much more than time—it is about how the objects we use to think about time shape our thoughts. Because time ties together so many aspects of our lives
The V indolanda Timepiece: Time and Calendar Reckoning in R oman B ritain
In 2008 a fragment of a time‐reckoning device was found at V indolanda. This fragment has been interpreted as part of an anaphoric water clock. There are important differences between this fragment and other objects thought to come from anaphoric water clocks. This article seeks to reinterpret the fragment in terms of a broader array of R oman time‐reckoning tools than anaphoric water clocks and also in terms of the archaeological context of V in…
Chapter 6 Thinking Through Homochronic Hegemony Ethnographically
Chapter 1 (Hegemonic) Calibrations in Anthropology
Time Blind: Problems in Perceiving Other Temporalities
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