Agreeing to Disagree: The Measurement of Duration in a Southwestern Ethiopian Community [and Comments and Reply]

Turton, David; Ruggles, Clive; Aveni, Anthony F.; Baity, Elizabeth Chesley; Callaghan, Catherine A.; Cohodas, Marvin; Dow, Julian A. T.; Hirschberg, W. R.; Kehoe, Alice Β.; Reyman, Jonathan E.; Swauger, James L.; Tornay, Serge; Urton, Gary

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“…18 In the end, the only sure way I could determine the span of the seasons was to ask what the season was every month for a year and note responses in a diary. This brings to mind Turton and Ruggles (1978) account of disagreements among the Mursi of Ethiopia as to the month at any time. 19 Meggitt 1958, pp.…”

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What Labour Engenders1: Women and Men, Time and Work in the New Guinea Highlands

Sillitoe¹

2006

The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology

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The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Debates over equality in New Guinea have raged for years. While people may subscribe to egalitarian values, this seems hollow to some observers in the context of relations between women and men, notably the sexual division of labour. Some even talk of men exploiting the labour of women. This paper considers the validity of these claims in the Was valley of the Southern Highlands Province, using data collected in a time-budget survey conducted to document and assess differences between women"s and men"s activities. It also reviews ideas of time expended undertaking any activity, and the relevance of notions of work and labour to people"s daily routines. It questions the propriety of introducing the capitalism"s preoccupation with labour. Differences in the activities of women and men far from evidencing relations of inequality are significant for such stateless political orders in eschewing hierarchical arrangements, where no one exercises control over resources or capital needed by others to secure livelihoods.

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What Labour Engenders1: Women and Men, Time and Work in the New Guinea Highlands

Sillitoe¹

2006

The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology

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“…There seems to be a universal pattern in the ways time is being perceived spontaneously. A number of anthropological studies have shown that in cultures geographically as far apart as eastern Africa, northern Canada and northern Japan, a similar set of temporal experiences can be discerned (Evans-Pritchard, 1939;Hallowell, 1937;Ohnuki-Tierney, 1973;Turton et al, 1978).…”

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Historical consciousness of time and its societal uses

Wilschut

2019

Journal of Curriculum Studies

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Taking as a point of departure that consciousness of time is pivotal to historical consciousness, this paper explores intuitive temporal experiences as opposed to the less intuitive temporal experience connected with historical consciousness. The intuitive daily/cyclic, social and mythical temporal awareness is being opposed to historical consciousness of time, defined in six central concepts: chronology, anachronism, historical distance, contingency, evidence and narration. The connection between the rise of a historical consciousness of time and the development of democracy is being discussed. Based on research in history education, the counterintuitive nature of each of the six concepts of historical consciousness of time is shown, resulting in the conclusion that the ways of thinking connected to the six concepts-counter-intuitive as they are, and therefore not likely to develop spontaneously in people-should be the object of history teaching. Hypothetically, the probable yields of each of the concepts for the support and upkeep of free democratic societies are discussed. The central thesis explored in this paper is: there is a consciousness of time which does not originate spontaneously and which-being an essential part of thinking and reasoning in democratic societies-should be fostered actively in history lessons.

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“…5). Aunque en otras culturas se ha registrado la observación del acimut de la salida del sol como medio con el cual establecer el calendario, el método aquí documentado obtiene errores significativamente reducidos en comparación con una observación directa de los rasgos del horizonte cerca del sol naciente (v. g. Turton & Ruggles 1978). De igual modo, el uso de cumbres naturales o construcciones artificiales como marcadores, tal como hacían las culturas vecinas de los mapuches, quechuas y aimaras, lograba establecer la posición de salida del sol posiblemente con la precisión de un día (Magaña 2006;Zuidema 1982).…”

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Bol. Mus. Chil. Arte Precolomb.

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Agreeing to Disagree: The Measurement of Duration in a Southwestern Ethiopian Community [and Comments and Reply]

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What Labour Engenders1: Women and Men, Time and Work in the New Guinea Highlands

What Labour Engenders1: Women and Men, Time and Work in the New Guinea Highlands

Historical consciousness of time and its societal uses

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