Book ID: CBB205554969

An Anthropology of Deep Time: Geological Temporality and Social Life (2020)

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Richard D. G. Irvine (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 220
Language: English

In the face of debates about the Anthropocene - a geological epoch of our own making - and contemporary concerns about ecological crisis and the Sixth Mass Extinction, it is more important than ever to locate the timeframe of human activity within the deep time of planetary history. This path-breaking book is a timely critical review of the anthropology of time, exploring our human relationship with the timescale of geological formation. Richard D. G. Irvine shows how the time-horizons of social life are a matter of crucial concern, and lays bare the ways in which human activity becomes severed from the long-term geological and ecological rhythms on which it depends.

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Authors & Contributors
Avner Wishnitzer
Laurence, Alison
Marcia Bjornerud
Bouton, Christophe
Karim P. Y. Thébault
Jeremy Davies
Concepts
Time perception
Time measurement
Time
Temporality
Science and society
Deep time
Time Periods
21st century
19th century
17th century
Meiji period (Japan, 1868-1910)
Edo period (Japan, 1603-1868)
Modern
Places
United States
Japan
Europe
Australia
Ottoman Empire
Institutions
Mars Exploration Rover Mission (U.S.)
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