| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 261 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction -- A case study of the Australian Aborigines -- Patterned-cyclical time-consciousness -- Patterned-cyclical time-consciousness, continued -- Ordinary-linear time-consciousness -- Patterned-cyclical and ordinary-linear time and the two sides of the brain -- Immediate-participatory and episodic-futural time and the brain -- The two and the four, and possibly more : social duality and the elementary forms of sociality -- Natural and rational experience of time -- Communal sharing and patterned-cyclical time-consciousness -- Equality matching and immediate-participatory time-consciousness -- Authority ranking and episodic-futural time-consciousness -- Market pricing and ordinary-linear time-consciousness -- Text and temporality -- An empirical test of the theory -- Discussion |
| Summary |
"Time-consciousness - long a shared objective of philosophy and social thought - is key to understanding different cultures and their cognitive adaptation to one another. Warren D. TenHouten's book achieves this goal by providing a three-level theory of time-consciousness, its neurocognitive basis, and social organization. Using classical and contemporary ethnographies of Australian Aborigines and Euro-Australians to support his theory, TenHouten shows how involvement in hedonic sociality - emphasizing equality and community - leads to time that is cyclical, present oriented, and more generally natural; whereas agonic sociality - based an inequality and agency - leads to time that is linear, future oriented, and more generally rational."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-243) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Time -- Sociological aspects.
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Pintupi people (C10) (NT SF52-11)
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Indigenous knowledge
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Psychology - Adaptation
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Psychology - Cognition
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Psychology - Dreams and symbolism
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Religion - Dreaming - Creation / Cosmology
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Social organisation
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Time -- Sociological aspects
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Psychoanalysis and culture -- Australia.
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Thought and thinking.
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Cognition and culture -- Australia.
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Time perception.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780791483459 |
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0791483452 |
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