An Anthropology of Deep Time : Geological Temporality and Social Life Hardback
by Richard D. G. (University of St Andrews, Scotland) Irvine
Part of the New Departures in Anthropology series
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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.
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- Pages:220 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:28/05/2020
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- ISBN:9781108491112
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:220 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:28/05/2020
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- ISBN:9781108491112
