Format:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 212 Seiten).
ISBN:
978-1-108-86745-0
Series Statement:
New departures in anthropology
Content:
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
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 May 2020). - Introduction -- Time depth -- Time travelling pits and migrant rocks -- Excluding water -- The problem with presentism -- Mapping deep time -- Geology and biography -- Enter catastrophe -- Wasteland
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-10849-111-2
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
,
General works
Keywords:
Anthropozän
;
Zeitbewusstsein
;
Ökologie
DOI:
10.1017/9781108867450
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
