Of everyday anthropology of time
Have you ever felt that 'time' happens to you, or 'history' for that matter? I think that time is happening to me here and leaving me perplexed at best of times.Seems like I/we/westerners perceive and experience time as if it was linear: one era gets completed - we move on to the next, leaving the last behind as something we don't have to worry about any more. And we're equipped to deal with just this one (or two eras) that we've ourselves experienced. Yet here in India all the former eras seem to co-exist with the current one, creating this crazy mixture of pre's and post's, western-eastern-pigeon culture.
I'm not equipped to deal at the same time with both reconstructing what postmodernity left behind and middle/other ages. Not yet, anyways. But perhaps soon the different times will become embedded in me, and I will be 'cured' of my perceptions, by which leprocy belonged to middle ages, women empowerment to my grandmother's youth, portrait statues of Lenin and Marx in some offices to 1940-60(70...80)'s.
posted by Ann @ 7:02 PM
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