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A Geography of Time: The Temporal Misadventures of a Social Psychologist, or How Every Culture Keeps Time Just a Little Bit Differently
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A Geography of Time: The Temporal Misadventures of a Social Psychologist, or How Every Culture Keeps Time Just a Little Bit Differently
By
Robert Levine
How do we use our time? Are we being ruled by the clock? What is this doing to our cities? To our relationships? To our own bodies and psyches? Are there decisions we have made without conscious choice? Alternative tempos we might prefer? Eminent social psychologist Robert Levine asks us to explore a dimension of our experience that we take for granted - our perception of time. Taking us on an enchanting and humourous tour of time through the ages and around the world, Levine's book makes an enjoyable and enlightening read. We travel with him to Brazil, where to be three hours late is perfectly acceptable, and to Japan, where he finds a sense of the long-term that is unheard of in the West. We visit communities in the United States and find that population size affects the pace of life and even the pace of walking, then find remote places in the world where 'nature time', the rhythms of the sun and the seasons, is the only time to live by. From the sundials of ancient Greece to GMT, we learn how time structures our lives and our surroundings in sometimes surprising ways.
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