{"product_id":"a-moments-notice-carol-j-greenhouse-9780801430619","title":"A Moment's Notice: Time Politics Across Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eFocusing on the problem of time--the paradox of time's apparent universality and cultural relativity--Carol J. Greenhouse develops an original ethnographic account of our present moment, the much-heralded postmodern condition, which is at the same time a reflexive analysis of ethnography itself. She argues that time is about agency and accountability, and that representations of time are used by institutions of law, politics, and scholarship to selectively refashion popular ideas of agency into paradigms of institutional legitimacy. \u003ci\u003eA Moment's Notice\u003c\/i\u003e suggests that the problem of time in theory is the corollary of problems of power in practice.Greenhouse develops her theory in examinations of three moments of cultural and political crisis: the resistance of the Aztecs against Cortes, the consolidation of China's First Empire, and the recent partisan political contests over Supreme Court nominees in the United States. In each of these cases, temporal innovation is integral to political improvisation, as traditions of sovereignty confront new cultural challenges. These cases return the discussion to current issues of inequality, postmodernity, cultural pluralism, and ethnography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carol J. Greenhouse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801430615\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801430619\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/27\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 334\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d","brand":"Carol J. Greenhouse","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43926113779967,"sku":"9780801430619","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_ec3bee27-72d2-4681-9a22-e345949ede16.jpg?v=1681081278","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-moments-notice-carol-j-greenhouse-9780801430619","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}