ANT204H5 Lecture Notes - Arab Spring, Corporate Capitalism, Consumerism
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Crystallizing time by having events to mark dates and time. Analog time to digital time; turned more precise and changing the concepts of time (ex. Constructing time through rules (it"s not time to be on your cell phone) A year is a passage of how a rock rotate around a star (earth revolving around sun) We can make agricultural and economic planning through time. Our time 2011 has a christian based history. Time defines age, and this defines what you must do at certain ages (marriage, etc;) Your birth date is fixed into many things such as birth certificate, driver"s license, etc; Time turned out not to be a neutral container at all, interpreted, debateable and changing at its core. Example: if you go to italy, there are many cathedrals where bells ring every hour to signify time, so there"s a christian or catholic feel; time and space is marked by christianity.
