Introduction "You can't always get what you want"--What we do when we're not working -- How much do we work? -- When do we work? -- Women and men -- Togetherness -- "The last of life, for which the first was made" -- The perennial issue and an old/new concern -- E pluribus unum?…
Time is the ultimate scarce resource and thus quintessentially a topic for economics, the study of scarcity. Starting with the observation that time is increasingly valuable given competing demands as we have more things we can buy and do, Spending Time provides engaging insight…
Time is the ultimate scarce resource and thus quintessentially a topic for economics, the study of scarcity. Starting with the observation that time is increasingly valuable given competing demands as we have more things we can buy and do, Spending Time provides engaging insight…
Time forms such an important part of our lives that it is rarely thought about. In this book the author moves beyond the time of clocks and calendars in order to study time as embedded in social interactions, structures, practices and knowledge, in artefacts, in the body, and in…
Time forms such an important part of our lives that it is rarely thought about. In this book the author moves beyond the time of clocks and calendars in order to study time as embedded in social interactions, structures, practices and knowledge, in artefacts, in the body, and in…
Asia-Pacific legacies in eastern Kula ring outrigger canoes / Frederick H. Damon -- The living shape of time : time and technics in the case of Abulës-Speakers yams / Ludovic Coupaye -- The lost writing and the drawn thought : shamanic reflections on knowledge and temporality am…
"This volume examines the way objects and images relate to and shape notions of temporality and history. Bringing together ethnographic studies from the Lowlands of Central and South America and Melanesia, it explores the temporality inhering in images and artefacts from a compa…
"This volume examines the way objects and images relate to and shape notions of temporality and history. Bringing together ethnographic studies from the Lowlands of Central and South America and Melanesia, it explores the temporality inhering in images and artefacts from a compa…
