The qualities of time, anthropological approaches, edited by Wendy James and David Mills
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The qualities of time, anthropological approaches, edited by Wendy James and David Mills
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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non fiction
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The qualities of time
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bibliography
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edited by Wendy James and David Mills
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ASA monographs,, 41, 0066-9679
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anthropological approaches
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From representation to action in the flow of time / Wendy James and David Mills. 1. Objects and places as signs of the past. The material culture of memory / Paul Lane; 'Varimu valale' : rock art as world heritage in a ritual landscape of central Tanzania / Jasper Chalcraft; The time of place in west Mexico / Trevor Stack. 2. Mythical times, presentism, and the critique from history. Tiger in an African palace / Richard Fardon; 'Time, too, grows on the moon' : some evidence for Knight's theory of a human universal / Ian Watts; Historical time versus the imagination of antiquity : critical perspectives from the Kalahari / Chris Wingfield; Kingship, revolution and time : perspectives on materiality and modernity / David Wengrow. 3. Modern times? Time inscribed in space, and the process of diagnosis in African and Chinese medical practices / Elisabeth Hsu; Time and the work ethic in post-socialist Romania / Monica Heintz. 4. Countering the metanarratives. Quartering sheep at carnival in Sud Lípez, Bolivia / Maggie Bolton; Bandits and heroes / Mary Rack; The persistence of multiple-religious practices in south-west Ethiopia / Wolde Gossa Tadesse; Time-shapes and cultural agency among West African craft specialists / Roy Dilley. 5. Cosmologies and the making of history. The 'rounds' of time : time, history and society in Borana Oromo / Gemetchu Megerssa and Aneesa Kassam; Cutting time : beads, sex and songs in the making of Samburu memory / Bilinda Straight; Old system, new conflicts : age, generation and discord among the Meru, Kenya / Anne-Marie Peatrik; The Kanungu fire : millenarianism and the millennium in south-western Uganda / Richard Vokes. 6. Persons in and out of time. Life made strange : an essay on the re-inhabitation of bodies and landscapes / Andrew Irving; Embodied memories : displacements in time and space / Julia Powles; Living in time's shadow / Martin A. Mills
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