Postill John, 2002

Clock and calendar time: a missing anthropological problem

http://www.philbu.net/media-anthropology/Postill_ClockCalendar.pdf

The first part of this article surveys the anthropology of time, finding that very little attention has been paid to the myriad social uses of clocks, calendars and other chronometric technologies. The second part illustrates such uses among the Iban of Sarawak (East Malaysia).