Calendars

Representational homogeneity and heterogeneous time

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4356294
AutoresKevin Birth (0000-0001-7119-4373, Queens College, CUNY, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen22
Número2
Páginas216-236
Fecha de publicación2013-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTime & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0961-463X • E-ISSN: 1461-7463
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0961463x11408251
OpenAlexW2325420809
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas12

Calendars and almanacs are objects designed to allow users to gain information about time that results from complicated calculations and observations, and to do so without having to replicate these cognitive tasks. Objects based on Gregorian calendrical logic have features that lead one to think that they represent homogeneous time, yet, adaptations of the Gregorian calendar as manifest in calendars and almanacs allow the homogeneous temporal framework to be used as a palimpsest for the representation of distinctive temporalities. This argument challenges the importance Anderson gives to homogeneous empty time as represented by newspapers in Imagined Communities, and offers an object-mediated alternative in which the counterpoint of temporal homogeneity and heterogeneity in the material manifestation of calendars and almanacs becomes a crucial means of imagining community. These issues are explored through historical evidence of calendars and almanacs in early modern Great Britain and ethnographic evidence from Trinidad

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