An Anthropology of Deep Time

Geological Temporality and Social Life
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-108-49111-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: New Departures in Anthropology

In the face of debates about the Anthropocene - a geological epoch of our own making - and contemporary concerns about ecological crisis and the Sixth Mass Extinction, it is more important than ever to locate the timeframe of human activity within the deep time of planetary history. This path-breaking book is a timely critical review of the anthropology of time, exploring our human relationship with the timescale of geological formation. Richard D. G. Irvine shows how the time-horizons of social life are a matter of crucial concern, and lays bare the ways in which human activity becomes severed from the long-term geological and ecological rhythms on which it depends.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Irvine, Richard D G

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Umweltgeschichte & Umweltarchäologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Time depth; 2. Time travelling pits and migrant rocks; 3. Excluding water; 4. The problem with presentism; 5. Mapping deep time; 6. Geology and biography; 7. Enter catastrophe; 8. Wasteland.

Über Autor(innen)

Irvine, Richard D G
Richard D. G. Irvine is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews.