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La Vida Matizada : Time Sense, Everyday Rhythms, and Globalized Ideas of Work
Author(s) -
Syring David
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
anthropology and humanism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1548-1409
pISSN - 1559-9167
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2009.01034.x
Subject(s) - temporality , negotiation , everyday life , ethnography , sociology , work (physics) , indigenous , temporalities , aesthetics , gender studies , epistemology , social science , political science , anthropology , art , law , ecology , philosophy , engineering , biology , mechanical engineering
SUMMARY This article explores three instances of the frictions and negotiations that are sparked by specific transnational encounters with global capitalist temporality. Capitalist ideas about the proper ways to organize time and labor have long dominated global practices. Such ideas simultaneously force acceptance of a limited model of the proper relationships between work and everyday life. This article provides ethnographic descriptions of the work rhythms of three men in interconnected contexts—those of an indigenous Saraguro (Ecuador) man, the experience of a migrant Saraguro man who works in industrial agriculture in the United States, and the author's experience as an academic.