Vessels of Time: An Essay on Temporal Change and Social Transformation - Couverture rigide

Ostor, Akos

 
9780195632859: Vessels of Time: An Essay on Temporal Change and Social Transformation

Synopsis

This treatise is concerned with the theoretical, methodological and interpretive questions involved when anthropologists consider the issue of time in Western and non-Western societies, in contemporary and historical contexts. The author concludes that time in an anthropological sense is not a universal condition with a constant meaning throughout history and society. Therefore, the anthropologist's task is to find ways of comparing the differences, thereby opening cultures and traditions to each other in a more egalitarian way.

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