dated time

midterm reasoning

temporality

nationality

American

British

occupation / innovator as

anthropologist

economic anthropologist

university professor

Johns Hopkins University

scientific organization

National Academy of Sciences

is a time that is punctuated rather than enduring.

In Guyer's view, what has filled the gap the near future is what she calls 'dated time,' that is, 'a time that is punctuated rather than enduring.' Dated time is punctuated by a series of ruptures.(Miyazaki 2007 :430)

is a mode of thinking (situating itself in the near future) in which ideas are crafted, debated, and negotiated in relation to a self-consciously partial knowledge of the unfolding present.

What worries Guyer about such 'evacuation of the temporal frame of the near future' is the disappearance of a space of what she calls 'midterm reasoning' in which ideas are crafted, debated, and negotiated in relation to a self-consciously partial knowledge of the unfolding present. According to Guyer, such intimate engagement with the 'near future' has given way to a faith in the ultimate truth and its accompanied abeyance of human agency (see also Miyazaki 2000): (Miyazaki 2007 :430)

is at work in a multiplicity of different coexisting ways within the same tradition.

Alternative temporal emphases coexist within what is generally understood to be the 'same' overarching tradition, so the foregrounding of one over the other must be seen as a history rather than an entailment.' (Miyazaki 2007 :430)

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