Time Blind: Problems in Perceiving Other Temporalities

Birth, Kevin K.

This book explores how modern concepts of time constrain our understanding of temporal diversity. Time is a necessary and pervasive dimension of scholarship, yet rarely have the cultural assumptions about time been explored.  This book looks at how anthropology--a discipline known for the study of cultural, linguistic, historical, and biological variation and differences--is blind to temporalities outside of the logics of European-derived ideas about time.  While the argument focuses primarily on anthropology, its points can be applied to other fields in the sciences, humanities, and social sciences.  

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2016-11-23

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783319341316

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-34132-3

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 171