Time Maps

Time Maps
Author :
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 194
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780226924908
ISBN-13 : 0226924904
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Time Maps by : Eviatar Zerubavel

Download or read book Time Maps written by Eviatar Zerubavel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pioneering sociologist and author of The Seven Day Circle continues his analysis of time with this fascinating look at history as social construct. Who were the first people to inhabit North America? Does the West Bank belong to the Arabs or the Jews? Why are racists so obsessed with origins? Is a seventh cousin still a cousin? Why do some societies name their children after dead ancestors? As Eviatar Zerubavel demonstrates in Time Maps, we cannot answer burning questions such as these without a deeper understanding of how we envision the past. In a pioneering attempt to map the structure of collective memory, Zerubavel considers the cognitive patterns we use to organize the past and the social grammar of conflicting interpretations of history. Drawing on fascinating examples that range from Hiroshima to the Holocaust, and from ancient Egypt to the former Yugoslavia, Zerubavel shows how we construct historical origins; how we tie discontinuous events together into stories; how we link families and entire nations through genealogies; and how we separate distinct historical periods from one another through watersheds, such as the invention of fire or the fall of the Berlin Wall. "Time Maps extends beyond all of the old clichés about linear, circular, and spiral patterns of historical process and provides us with models of the actual legends used to map history…brilliant and elegant."-Hayden White, University of California, Santa Cruz


Time Maps Related Books

Time Maps
Language: en
Pages: 194
Authors: Eviatar Zerubavel
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06-12 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The pioneering sociologist and author of The Seven Day Circle continues his analysis of time with this fascinating look at history as social construct. Who were
Time in Maps
Language: en
Pages: 248
Authors: Kären Wigen
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-11-20 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Maps organize us in space, but they also organize us in time. Looking around the world for the last five hundred years, Time in Maps shows that today’s digita
Maps of Time
Language: en
Pages: 672
Authors: David Christian
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Introducing a novel perspective on the study of history, David Christian views the interaction of the natural world with the more recent arrivals in flora & fau
Rose Book of Bible Charts, Maps, and Time Lines
Language: en
Pages: 203
Authors: Rose Publishing (Torrance, Calif.)
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-03-13 - Publisher: Rose Publishing Inc

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The #1 Bible Reference book celebrates its 10th anniversary with this 230-page edition that features more Bible maps, charts and illustrations than the original
Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time
Language: en
Pages: 393
Authors: Peter Galison
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-09-14 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"In Galison's telling of science, the meters and wires and epoxy and solder come alive as characters, along with physicists, engineers, technicians and others .