Deep time: an anthropological problem
Deep time: an anthropological problem
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深度时间：一个人类学问题
DOI：
10.1111/1469-8676.12067
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发表时间：
2014
影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
R. Irvine
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作者：
R. Irvine
当人类学家试图与我们现在生活在“人类世”（人类自己创造的地质时代）这一新兴思想接触时，在行星历史的深层时间内定位人类活动的时间框架变得非常重要。本文询问人类学是否为这一挑战做好了适当的准备。通过讨论地球科学中与深时间的相遇，我认为深时间不是一个抽象的概念，而是在经验层面上影响人们的现象世界的一部分。因此，人类学面临的挑战是找到新的方法来探索人类和地质时间性之间的相互关系。
As anthropologists attempt to engage with the emergent idea that we are now living in the ‘Anthropocene’ – a geological epoch of our own making – it becomes important to locate the timeframe of human activity within the deep time of planetary history. This paper asks whether anthropology is properly equipped for this challenge. By discussing the encounter with deep time in the earth sciences, I argue that deep time is not an abstract concept, but part of the phenomenal world impacting on people at the level of experience. The anthropological challenge, then, is to find new ways of exploring the interrelationships between human and geological temporalities.