The Play of Time
Kodi Perspectives on Calendars, History, and Exchange
by Janet Hoskins

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• ISBN: 9780520208926 (0520208927)
• Awards: Harry J. Benda Prize in Southeast Asian Studies (1996)
• Author: Janet Hoskins
• Genres: anthropology
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Language: english
• Format: paperback, 440 pages
• Release date: April 28, 1997

About The Book

Janet Hoskins provides both an ethnographic study of the organization of time in an Eastern Indonesian society and a theoretical argument about alternate temporalities in the modern world. Based on more than three years of field work with the Kodi people of the island of Sumba, her book focuses on Kodi calendrical rituals, exchange transactions, and confrontations with the historical forces of the colonial and postcolonial world. Hoskins explores the contingent, contested, and often contradictory precedent of the past to show how local systems of knowledge are in dialogue with wider historical forces.

Arguing that traditional temporality is more complex than many theorists have realized, Hoskins highlights the flexibility and relativity of local time concepts, whose sophistication belies the cliche of simple societies living in a world outside of time.

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