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The examination of the phenomenon of time and to what extent our awareness of it is culturally conditioned. The writer provides a detailed analysis of theories put forward by such thinkers as Durkheim, Evans-Pritchard, Levi-Strauss, Geertz, Piaget, Husserl and Bourdieu. Other topics covered include time-reversal in Umeda ritual, cultural relativity, psychological evidence for the universality of time cognition, linguistic arguments for the cognitive universality of time and calendars and power.

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"Arguing forcefully against a number of distinguished anthropologists and his own earlier work, [Alfred Gell] has produced a critical review of the literature which is original, disturbing and sometimes brilliant... ""MAN"" Gell takes a broad sweep and his book is likely to be the standard one in this field for some time to come. ""Cosmos"" ... Gell's work is most likely a probe, but - I must add - a very brilliant one. ""Ibero-Americana Pragensia"""""

Arguing forcefully against a number of distinguished anthropologists and his own earlier work, [Alfred Gell] has produced a critical review of the literature which is original, disturbing and sometimes brilliant... -- MAN Gell takes a broad sweep and his book is likely to be the standard one in this field for some time to come. -- Cosmos .,. Gell's work is most likely a probe, but - I must add - a very brilliant one. -- Ibero-Americana Pragensia

Arguing forcefully against a number of distinguished anthropologists and his own earlier work, [Alfred Gell] has produced a critical review of the literature which is original, disturbing and sometimes brilliant... -- MAN <br> Gell takes a broad sweep and his book is likely to be the standard one in this field for some time to come. -- Cosmos <br>. .. Gell&#8217;s work is most likely a probe, but - I must add - a very brilliant one. -- Ibero-Americana Pragensia <br>

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Alfred Gell is formerly of London School of Economics

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