Rethinking time's arrow: Bergson, Deleuze and the anthropology of time

Anthropological Theory

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 399-429

  Hodges, Matt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bergson; Deleuze; Emergence; Fluid time; History; La dur e; Processual analysis; Temporal ontology; Time

Indexed keywords

EID: 61149513746     PISSN: 14634996     EISSN: 17412641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1463499608096646     Document Type: Review

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