TIME: CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Cultural organization of —- gives us a key to understanding a—-

time, society's foundation

Culture Builders: Time plays a key role in the social organization of all culture, marking —— and ——, —— and —— in the life of individuals and the collective.”

boundaries, transitions, phases, rhythms

What is time generated by?

Time is generated by the instruments of measurements and does not exist independent of them

Time= a measure of the changing —— of objects; the objects and their —— are more fundamental than time

Positions, positions

Julian Barbour’s belief on Time

Mistaken belief in the reality of time which prevents physicists from achieving their ultimate goal of unifying quantum mechanics w/ general relativity.

Time in the quantum world

• An invisible framework in which events unfold

• regularly ticks away in the background

• Fixed

General Theory of Relativity

• time bends and distorts

• no invisible framework

• no clock ticking outside the universe against which to measure events

• Flexible

Time measures are based on ————-: initially distant stellar observations; but it is generated by the ———- of ———- by the ——-

physical regularities, instruments of measure, watch

Time is artificial and ——- constructed

Culturally

What we do w/ underlying physical properties of measurements is ——- The “units of time, their uses and significance are ——- and a function of human ——

“cultural,” arbitrary, artifice

Fetishizing Time examples

• time flies

• time creeps up on you

• kill time

History of Time: 18th century mastered measurements of —- and the 19th century measured measurements of ——

mass, distance

First unit to measure speed

Knots

Eventually American communities began to follow the clocks kept in major cities; by the early —— there were 44 official time zones.

1880s

Keeper of the nation’s time

• Department of Transportation

• Uniform time zones were established but divided city and country folk