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Nine - Temporality and Replacement

from Part III - Thresholds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2022

Paul Kockelman
Paul Kockelman
Affiliation:
Yale University, Connecticut
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Summary

Chapter 9 introduces the Q’eqchi’-Maya institution of replacement (eeqaj), a set of practices and beliefs, which determine when various kinds of entities and agents must be replaced, as well as what kinds of entities and agents may substitute for them, and thereby serve as their replacements. It uses this institution as a means to articulate various modes of temporality that underlie social practices and material processes: temporality as repetition (and interruption); temporality as irreversibility (and reversibility); temporality as reckoning (and regimentation); temporality as roots and fruits; and temporality as cosmology and worldview. In addition, it highlights the important role that thresholds play in mediating such practices and processes.

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Q’eqchi’Mayareplacementreplenishmenttimetemporal reckoninggiftcommodity
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The Anthropology of Intensity
Language, Culture, and Environment
 , pp. 243 - 270
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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