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

Richard D. G. Irvine (Author)

Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2020
Language: English

ISBN: 9781108491112

Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 220

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Ecology Temporality Geological ages Time measurement Science and society Time perception Geology Deep time Anthropocene

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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Review Marco Tamborini (2021) Review of "An Anthropology of Deep Time: Geological Temporality and Social Life". Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science (p. 100762). unapi

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