Time Blind

This book explores how modern concepts of time constrain our understanding of temporal diversity. Time is a necessary and pervasive dimension of scholarship, yet rarely have the cultural assumptions about time been explored. This book looks at how anthropology--a discipline known for the study of cultural, linguistic, historical, and biological variation and differences--is blind to temporalities outside of the logics of European-derived ideas about time. While the argument focuses primarily on anthropology, its points can be applied to other fields in the sciences, humanities, and social sciences.

Prelude: The Duplicity of Time. - Chapter 1. (Hegemonic) Calibrations in Anthropology. - Chapter 2. Evolution s Anticipation of Horology? . - Chapter 3. `Hours Don t Make Work : Kairos, Chronos, and the Spirit of Work in Trinidad. - Chapter 4. Past Times: Temporal Structuring of History and Memory. - Chapter 5. Tensions of the Times: Homochronism versus Narratives of Postcolonialism. -Chapter 6. Thinking Through Homochronic Hegemony Ethnographically.