| An Anthropology of Deep Time: Geological Temporality and Social Life Contributor(s): Irvine, Richard D. G. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108792227 ISBN-13: 9781108792226 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $31.34 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 6.15" W x 8.84" (0.70 lbs) 220 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |