A-series Time
A01=Alfred Gell
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Author_Alfred Gell
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Category=JM
Category=PGZ
Clock Time
Conferred
Draw Back
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Follow
Hold
Husserl's Model
Husserl’s Model
Inclined
Internal Time Consciousness
Lifecycle
Luni Solar Calendar
Opportunity Costs
Past Tenses
Perceptual Beliefs
Post-Durkheimians
Proximate Future
Smooth
Social anthropology
Social/cognitive time
Socialcognitive time
Space Time Environment
Superimposed
Symbolic anthropology
Synoptic Illusion
Temporal issues
Temporal Territory
Time Cognition
Timeless
Vice Versa
Violate
Product details
- ISBN 9780854968909
- Weight: 440g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 2001
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Time - relentless, ever-present but intangible and the single element over which human beings have no absolute control - has long proved a puzzle. The author examines the phenomenon of time and asks such fascinating questions as how time impinges on people, to what extent our awareness of time is culturally conditioned, how societies deal with temporal problems and whether time can be considered a `resource' to be economized. More specifically, he provides a consistent and detailed analysis of theories put forward by a number of thinkers such as Durkheim, Evans-Pritchard, Lévi-Strauss, Geertz, Piaget, Husserl and Bourdieu. His discussion encompasses four main approaches in time research, namely developmental psychology, symbolic anthropology (covering the bulk of post-Durkheimian social anthropology) `economic' theories of time in social geography and, finally, phenomenological theories. The author concludes by presenting his own model of social/cognitive time, in the light of these critical discussions of the literature.
Alfred Gell formerly taught at the London School of Economics
