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Time and Society

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Time-consciousness—long a shared objective of philosophy and social thought—is key to understanding different cultures and their cognitive adaptation to one another. Warren D. TenHouten's remarkable book achieves this goal by providing a bold and original three-level theory of time-consciousness, its neurocognitive basis, and social organization. Using classical and contemporary ethnographies of Australian Aborigines and Euro-Australians to support his theory, TenHouten shows how involvement in hedonic sociality—emphasizing equality and community—leads to time that is cyclical, present oriented, and more generally natural; whereas agonic sociality—based on inequality and agency—leads to time that is linear, future oriented, and more generally rational.

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ISBN: 9780791464342
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Author: Warren D TenHouten
Publisher: SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 275 pages
Genres: Sociology
Social and cultural anthropology
Time (chronology), time systems and standards