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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN-100520208927
ISBN-139780520208926
eBay Product ID (ePID)1023834
Product Key Features
Number of Pages440 Pages
Publication NamePlay of Time : Kodi Perspectives on Calendars, History, and Exchange
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1997
SubjectHistoriography, Asia / General, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaReference, Social Science, History
AuthorJanet Hoskins
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight20.8 Oz
Item Length0.9 in
Item Width0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN92-031669
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition20
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal959.8
SynopsisJanet Hoskins provides both an ethnographic study of the organization of time in an Eastern Indonesian society and a theoretical argument about alternate temporalities in the modern world. Based on more than three years of field work with the Kodi people of the island of Sumba, her book focuses on Kodi calendrical rituals, exchange transactions, and confrontations with the historical forces of the colonial and postcolonial world. Hoskins explores the contingent, contested, and often contradictory precedent of the past to show how local systems of knowledge are in dialogue with wider historical forces. Arguing that traditional temporality is more complex than many theorists have realized, Hoskins highlights the flexibility and relativity of local time concepts, whose sophistication belies the cliche of simple societies living in a world outside of time.