Time Blind: Problems in Perceiving Other Temporalities

By Kevin K Birth and Kevin K. Birth

Book Overview

Prelude: The Duplicity of Time

Chapter 1. (Hegemonic) Calibrations in Anthropology

Chapter 2. Evolution's Anticipation of Horology?

Chapter 3. 'Hours Don't Make Work': Kairos, Chronos, and the Spirit of Work in Trinidad

Chapter 4. Past Times: Temporal Structuring of History and Memory

Chapter 5. Tensions of the Times: Homochronism versus Narratives of Postcolonialism

Chapter 6. Thinking Through Homochronic Hegemony Ethnographically

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319341316
• ISBN13: 9783319341316
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 171 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.3"