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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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"This book will be invaluable for cognitive anthropologists, scholars of material culture, and theorists interested in time historically and in our global age . . . All of us feel bound to our alarm clocks, wristwatches, and daily planners, but few of us have given thought to where these devices come from and how they have altered us as social and biological beings. In this engaging and intellectually far-reaching work, Birth has done much of the work for us." - American Anthropologist
"An important contribution to the anthropology of time and material culture studies, this volume takes as its primary point of departure that the mechanisms for 'telling' time (the author focuses on clocks and calendars) are engaged in shaping our experience and subsequent enactment of temporal realities as much as they are nominally thought of as representing them." - American Ethnologist
"An admirable attempt to ground the study of time within the empirical specificity of objects and culture." - Time and Society
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Objects of Time
Book Subtitle: How Things Shape Temporality
Authors: Kevin K. Birth
Series Title: Culture, Mind, and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137017895
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Kevin K. Birth 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-01787-1Published: 10 October 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-01788-8Published: 10 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-01789-5Published: 10 October 2012
Series ISSN: 2637-6806
Series E-ISSN: 2634-517X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 211
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Sociology of Culture, Psycholinguistics, Anthropology, History of Science