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An Anthropology of Deep Time

An Anthropology of Deep Time

Hardcover

Series: New Departures in Anthropology

AnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1108491111
ISBN13: 9781108491112
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 28 2020
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.60 Width: 7.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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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