This essay concerns experience of time in anthropology. It triangulates between theoretical discussions of time, embodiments of temporal experience in a handful of classic and contemporary anthropological works, and the temporal texture of ethnographic fieldwork, reading, and writing. Thinking with philosophers such as Nietzsche, Bergson, and Deleuze, as well as with my disciplinary and field i…
Now. A note from the field of this essay’s reading: your reading of this essay. A digression in the body of the text, an interruption in the experience of its passage, and a fissure,perhaps, in your trust of its author. Still, a warning seemed necessary. This essay pursues certain narrative devices that are meant to express and embody its argumentative stakes and conceptual architecture. Meth…