The Cultural Anthropology of Time: A Critical Essay
The Cultural Anthropology of Time: A Critical Essay
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时间的文化人类学：一篇评论文章
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1992
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N. Munn
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写一篇关于时间的文化人类学的评论，有点像阅读博尔赫斯（19a）无限的《沙之书》：当你打开这本书的时候，书页在不断地增加——它没有开始也没有结束。博尔赫斯的书可以被看作是时间的中心：一页被看过就再也看不到了，这本书的拥有者们一直试图通过偷偷地出售或丢失它来逃避它“可怕的”自我生产。对社会文化时间的广泛的、无穷无尽的研究反映了时间作为社会经验和实践的各个方面不可避免的维度的普遍性。这显然是“无限的复杂性”（1:200）
Writing a review of the cultural anthropology of time is something like reading Borges's (19a) infinite "Book of Sand": as one opens this book, pages keep growing from it-it has no beginning or end. Borges's book could be taken as the spa ce of time: A page once seen is never seen again, and the book's harried possessors keep trying to escape its "monstrous" self-production by surrepti tiously selling or losing it. The diffuse, endlessly multiplying studies of sociocultural time reflect time's pervasiveness as an inescapable dimension of all aspects of social experience and practice. This apparently "infinite complexity" (1:200) seems