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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Ed. de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
[2019]
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| 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
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| RelBib 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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| Summary: | 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 and antique pasts. The use and fate of devices designed to register time within these encounters therefore become significant for a better understanding of what has been at stake in the challenges to knowledge and to belief that emerge in such encounters. The example of British maritime entry into the Pacific in the eighteenth century offers clear cases where different time-senses were reorganized and a range of time-machines were challenged in the complex practical worlds that emerged in relations between different cultures. |
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| ISSN: | 1777-5825 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Archives de sciences sociales des religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.4000/assr.46165 |