Objects of Time: How Things Shape Temporality (Culture, Mind and Society)

by K. Birth

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This is a book about time, but it is also about much more than time-it is about how the objects we use to think about time shape our thoughts. Because time ties together so many aspects of our lives, this book is able to explore the nexus of objects, cognition, culture, and even biology, and to do so in relationship to globalization. By using ethnographic and historical data, the book argues that we must recognize the cognitive effects of our timekeeping devices, and that we must also recognize that they do not adequately capture many important aspects of time or life.
  • ISBN10 1137017899
  • ISBN13 9781137017895
  • Publish Date 4 September 2012
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 222
  • Language English