Vessels of time : an essay on temporal change and social transformation /

This extended, penetrating, and elegantly structured and written essay is an exploration of time, conceptually, comparatively, and in different historical and social contexts. It opens with an exploration of time in different societies. Is time among the Salteaux, Balinese, Nuer, or Pitanjara simila...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Östör, Ákos
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
Subjects:	Time > Sociological aspects. Social change. Space and time. Comparative civilization. Temps > Aspect sociologique. Développement social. Espace et temps. Civilisation comparée. Raum Sozialer Wandel Soziologie Zeit Tijd. Sociale verandering. Time > Sociology
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Table of Contents:

Ch. I. The Problem of Time in Societies. 1. Perceptions and Contrasts. 2. Concepts and Methods. 3. The Comparative Study of Societies. 4. An Outline of the Argument
Ch. II. Time in Non-Western Societies. 1. Aboriginal America. 2. The Nuer of the Sudan. 3. Aboriginal Australia. 4. Hindu Bali. 5. Through Western Eyes Only. 6. Ancient China. 7. Ancient India. 8. Light from the East
Ch. III. The Pasts of the West. 1. Medieval France. 2. Early Modern England. 3. The Longue Duree. 4. A Fundamental Problem. 5. Agrarian America. 6. Nineteenth-Century Immigrants. 7. Industrial America. 8. Family Time. 9. Civilizing the Machine
Ch. IV. Time and the Transformation of the Non-Western World. 1. Our Time as Their Time? 2. India: Time Disaggregated. 3. Sudan: Time Transformed. 4. Algeria: Time Disenchanted
Ch. V. America Today. 1. Sacred Time. 2. Limits to Growth, Cultural Contradictions, and Metronomic Societies. 3. Age, Time, and Ritual
Ch. VI. Vessel Above Time.