An Anthropology of Deep Time - Geological Temporality and Social Life

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.

Product details

• Authors: Richard D. G. Irvine, Richard D. G. (University of St Andrews Irvine
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781108792226
• ISBN: 978-1-108-79222-6
• No. of pages: 220
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 12 mm
• Series: New Departures in Anthropology; Print on Demand
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); 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