An Anthropology of Deep Time: Geological Temporality and Social Life (New Departures in Anthropology)

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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.


  • | Author: Richard D. G. Irvine
  • | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • | Publication Date: May 28, 2020
  • | Number of Pages: 200 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Paperback
  • | ISBN-10: 1108792227
  • | ISBN-13: 9781108792226
Author:
Richard D. G. Irvine
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Publication Date:
May 28, 2020
Number of pages:
200 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1108792227
ISBN-13:
9781108792226