A Moment's Notice : : Time Politics across Culture / / Carol J. Greenhouse.
Focusing on the problem of time—the paradox of time's apparent universality and cultural relativity—Carol J. Greenhouse develops an original ethnographic account of our present moment, the much-heralded postmodern condition, which is at the same time a reflexive analysis of ethnography itself....
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (334 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I
- 1. Time, Life, and Society
- 2. Relative Time and the Limits of Law
- 3. Agency and Authority
- Part II
- 4. Time and Territory in Ancient China
- 5. Time and Sovereignty in Aztec Mexico
- 6. Time, Life, and Law in the United States
- Conclusion: Postmodernity This Time
- Notes
- References
- Index