Anthropology of Deep Time - Geological Temporality and Social Life

Reconfigures the anthropology of time by viewing human social life as part of the long-term rhythms of geological formation.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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

Summary

Rethinking social theory through a rich engagement with landscape and the history of geology, this book explores our human relationship with the timescale of geological formation and shows how social life becomes disconnected from the ecological and geological rhythms on which it depends.

Product details

• Authors: Richard D G Irvine, Richard D. G. Irvine, Richard D. G. (University of St Andrews Irvine
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781108491112
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49111-2
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: New Departures in Anthropology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere, Landscape Archaeology, Geology & The Lithosphere, Environmental archaeology