The Qualities of Time

Anthropological Approaches

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ID19949219
EditorsWendy James (0009-0002-0753-3056), David Mills (0000-0002-1218-755X)
Year2020
Publication date2020-08-19
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueQualities of Time (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781003135449
OpenAlexW582392558
Open LibraryOL35880123M
ISBN9781003135449
LanguageEN
Citations received20

Introduction: From Representation to Action in the Flow of Time (Wendy James, University of Oxford and David Mills) Part I: Objects and Places as Signs of the Past The Material Culture of Memory (Paul Lane) 'Varimu Valale': Rock Art as World Heritage in a Ritual Landscape of Central Tanzania (Jasper Chalcraft) The Time of Place in West Mexico (Trevor Stack, University of Aberdeen) Part II: Mythical Times, Presentism and the Critique from History A Tiger in an African Palace (Richard Fardon, School of Oriental and African Studies) 'Time, Too, Grows on the Moon': Some Evidence for Knight's Theory of a Human Universal (Ian Watts, University of Cape Town) Historical Time Versus the Imagination of Antiquity: Critical Perspectives from the Kalahari (Chris Wingfield) Kingship, Revolution and Time: Perspectives on Materiality and Modernity (David Wengrow, Christ Church College, University of Oxford) Part III: Modern Times? Time Inscribed in Space, and the Process of Diagnosis in African and Chinese Medical Practices (Elisabeth Hsu, Green College, University of Oxford) Time and the Work Ethic in Post-Socialist Romania (Monica Heintz, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany) Part IV: Counterpointing the Metanarratives Quartering Sheep at Carnival in Sud Lopez, Bolivia (Maggie Bolton, University of Manchester) Bandits and Heroes: Past and Present in Central China (Mary Rack) The Persistence of Multiple-Religious Ceremonies in South-West Ethiopia (Tadesse Wolde, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany) Time-Shapes and Cultural Agency Among West African Craft Specialists (Roy Dilley, University of St Andrews) Part V: Cosmologies and the Making of History The 'Rounds' of Time: Time, History and Society in Boran Oromo (Gemetchu Megerssa, University of Addis Ababa and Aneesa Kassam, University of Durham) Cutting Time: Beads and Songs in the Making of Samburu Memory (Bilinda Straight, Western Michigan University) Old System, New Conflicts: Age, Generation, and Discord Among the Meru, Kenya (Anne-Marie Peatrik, CNRS, University Paris X-Nanterre) The Kanungu Fire: Millenarianism and the Millennium in South-Western Uganda (Richard Vokes, University of Oxford) Part VI: Persons In and Out of Time Life Made Strange: On the Re-Inhabitation of Bodies and Landscapes (Andrew Irving, University College London and Royal Free Hospital) Embodied Memories: Displacements in Time and Space (Julia Powles, St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford) Living in Time's Shadow: Pollution, Purification and Fractured Temporalities in Buddhist Ladakh (Martin Mills, University of Aberdeen)

Ancient history · Art history · Modernity · Sociology · Anthropology · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Philosophy

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