A01=Janet Hoskins
alternate temporalities
asian culture
Author_Janet Hoskins
calendar
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colonialism
concept of history
construction of the past
contested time
dream village
eastern indonesia
eastern indonesian society
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ethnography
exchange strategies
exchange transactions
history
ideology
indonesian culture
island of sumba
kodi calendrical rituals
kodi people
local systems of knowledge
local time
local time concepts
modern world
organization of time
politics of the calendar
postcolonialism
time as value
traditional temporality
Product details
- ISBN 9780520208926
- Weight: 590g
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 1997
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Janet Hoskins provides both an ethnographic study of the organization of time in an Eastern Indonesian society and a theoretical argument about alternate temporalities in the modern world. Based on more than three years of field work with the Kodi people of the island of Sumba, her book focuses on Kodi calendrical rituals, exchange transactions, and confrontations with the historical forces of the colonial and postcolonial world. Hoskins explores the contingent, contested, and often contradictory precedent of the past to show how local systems of knowledge are in dialogue with wider historical forces. Arguing that traditional temporality is more complex than many theorists have realized, Hoskins highlights the flexibility and relativity of local time concepts, whose sophistication belies the cliche of simple societies living in a world outside of time.
Janet Hoskins is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern California.
