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Objects of time How things shape temporality /

This is a book about time, but it is also about much more than time-it is about how the objects we use to think about time shape our thoughts. Because time ties together so many aspects of our lives, this book is able to explore the nexus of objects, cognition, culture, and even biology, and to do s...

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Main Authors: Birth, Kevin K.
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Series: Culture, mind and society
Subjects:
Time > Sociological aspects.
Time > Philosophy.
Time perception.
Material culture.
Perception.
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
Psychology.
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137017895
Summary: This is a book about time, but it is also about much more than time-it is about how the objects we use to think about time shape our thoughts. Because time ties together so many aspects of our lives, this book is able to explore the nexus of objects, cognition, culture, and even biology, and to do so in relationship to globalization.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Carrier Form: 222 p. : 1 b&w, 1 graphs, halftones.
ISBN: 9781137017871
9781137017895 :
1137017899 :
CLC: B016.9
Contents: The Material Invention of Time A Necromantic Device, or How Clocks Think Calendrical Uniformity versus Planned Uncanniness Polyrhythmic Temporalities (Confounding the Artifacts) Globeness: Time and the Embodied, Biological Consequences of Globalization Creeping Cognitive Homochronicity and the End of the Time of Earth.

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