Michael G. Flaherty & Lotte Meinert 
Time Work [PDF ebook] 
Studies of Temporal Agency

PART I: BEGINNINGS, CONCEPTS, AND QUESTIONS

Introduction
Michael G. Flaherty, Anne Line Dalsgård, and Lotte Meinert

Chapter 1. The Lathe of Time: Some Principles of Temporal Agency
Michael G. Flaherty

PART II: TEMPORAL AFFLICTIONS

Chapter 2. Repetition Work: Healing Spirits and Trauma in the Churches of Northern Uganda
Lars Williams and Lotte Meinert

Chapter 3. ADHD and Temporal Experiences: Struggling for Synchronization
Mikka Nielsen

PART III: THE POLITICS OF TIME

Chapter 4. Hacking Time and Looping Temporalities in the Identification of the Adult “Living Disappeared” in Argentina
Noa Vaisman

Chapter 5. Temporal Front and Back Stages: Time Work as Resistance
Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott

PART IV: SPIRITUALITY AND ATHEISM AS TEMPORAL AGENCY

Chapter 6. Se Deus Quiser: Catholicism as Time Work among the Xukuru of Pernambuco
Clarissa Martins Lima

Chapter 7. “It Is Just Doing the Motion”: Atheist Time Work in Contemporary Kyrgyzstan
Maria Louw

PART V: REINVENTING THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

Chapter 8. Inventing New Time: Time Work in the Grief Practices of Bereaved Parents
Dorthe Refslund Christensen and Kjetil Sandvik

Chapter 9. Now Is Not: Future Anteriority and a Georgian in Russia
Martin Demant Frederiksen

PART VI: TIME AND DEPRIVATION

Chapter 10. The Work of Waiting: Boredom, Teatime, and Future-Making in Niger
Adeline Masquelier

Chapter 11. Balancing Blood Sugar: Fasting, Feeling, and Time Work During the Egyptian Ramadan
Mille Kjærgaard Thorsen and Anne Line Dalsgård

Afterword
Carmen Leccardi

Index

Anne Line Dalsgård is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Aarhus University. She is the author of Matters of Life and Longing: Female Sterilisation in Northern Brazil (Museum Tusculanum Press, 2004) and is a co-editor of Ethnographies of Youth and Temporality: Time Objectified (Temple University Press, 2014).