Traveling Machines and Colonial Times

In colonial and cross-cultural encounters, different time-scales and variable means for registering time's passage come into relation with each other, often deliberately. An important and aggressive tradition supposed that distant and exotic cultures were to be understood as belonging to remote...

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Main Author: Schaffer, Simon 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Ed. de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales [2019]
In: Archives de sciences sociales des religions
Year: 2019, Volume: 187, Pages: 171-190
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Europe / Colonialism / Oceania / Time measurement / Cultural contact / Time perception
IxTheo Classification:CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations
KBS Australia; Oceania
TJ Modern history
Further subjects:B Exploration
B Pacific Ocean
B Temporality
B sextant
B Chronometers
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