1st Edition
Sentient Conceptualisations Feeling for Time in the Sciences of the Past
By Cristian Simonetti
Copyright 2018
218 Pages
by
Routledge
218 Pages
61 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
218 Pages
61 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Sentient Conceptualisations is about how scientists studying the past understand time in relation to space. Simonetti argues that the feelings for depths and surfaces, arising from the bodily movements and gestures of scientific practice, strongly influence conceptualisations of space and time. With an anthropological eye, Simonetti explores the ways archaeologists and those from related... Read more
Introduction
1. Gesturing a Past Underground
2. Forward into the Absent Past
3. Vertical and Horizontal Chronologies in Tension
4. The Stratification of Life, Mind and Sociality
5. Time at the Trowel’s Edge
6. Bodies of Knowledge: Anthropology, Archaeology and History
7. Time Play: From Ontology to Rheology
1. Gesturing a Past Underground
2. Forward into the Absent Past
3. Vertical and Horizontal Chronologies in Tension
4. The Stratification of Life, Mind and Sociality
5. Time at the Trowel’s Edge
6. Bodies of Knowledge: Anthropology, Archaeology and History
7. Time Play: From Ontology to Rheology
Biography
Cristián Simonetti is Assistant Professor at the Programa de Antropología, Instituto de Sociología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen, UK.
