Contribution to Book
Time a Tripartie Sociotemporal Model
Dimensions of Time and Life The study of Time VIII
(1996)
Abstract
This paper outlines and illustrates a model of sociotemporality based upon a tripartite paradigm using the concepts of linearity, cyclicity, and liminality as basic sociotemporal primes. The paper reviews the study of time in anthropology, arguing that much sociocultural anthropology has been concerned with studies focused "on time"—either based upon the analysis of time reckoning systems and concepts of time, or with the use of time as a parametric device to measure social change. The paper suggests that societies and social interaction must be situated "in time"—as processes located upon and determined by the temporal landscape. The application of the model utilizes ethnographic data on Canadian Inuit and South Slav peasants.
Keywords
- sociocultural anthropology,
- Southern Slavs,
- social temporal,
- Canadian Inuit,
- Time
Disciplines
Publication Date
1996
Editor
J. T. Eraser and M. P. Soulsby
Publisher
INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITIES PRESS, INC
ISBN
0170-9704 ;
Citation Information
Joel Halpern and T L Christie. "Time a Tripartie Sociotemporal Model" Madison, ConnecticutDimensions of Time and Life The study of Time VIII (1996) p. 187 - 198 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/joel_halpern/170/
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