The Anthropology of Time

The examination of the phenomenon of time and to what extent our awareness of it is culturally conditioned. The writer provides a detailed analysis of theories put forward by such thinkers as Durkheim, Evans-Pritchard, Levi-Strauss, Geertz, Piaget, Husserl and Bourdieu. Other topics covered include time-reversal in Umeda ritual, cultural relativity, psychological evidence for the universality of time cognition, linguistic arguments for the cognitive universality of time and calendars and power.