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Time Blind

Problems in Perceiving Other Temporalities
By:Kevin K. Birth
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9783319341316
eText ISBN:9783319341323
Edition:0
Copyright:2017
Format:Page Fidelity

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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.