Anthropology of Time Gell Alfred
Anthropology of Time Gell Alfred Time - relentless, ever-present but intangible and the single element over which human beings have no absolute control - has long proved a puzzle. More specifically,…
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Anthropology of Time Gell Alfred
Time - relentless, ever-present but intangible and the single element over which human beings have no absolute control - has long proved a puzzle. More specifically, he provides a consistent and detailed analysis of theories put forward by a number of thinkers such as Durkheim, Evans-Pritchard, L vi-Strauss, Geertz, Piaget, Husserl and Bourdieu. 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.
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
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