Time - health - culture
Subtitle: cultural time concepts and health-related time preferences in Burkina Faso
By: Evelyn Wladarsch
Publisher: Reimer
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Time; Sociological aspects; Time perception; Time management; Medical anthropology
Other titles: Cultural time concepts and health-related time preferences in Burkina Faso
Description: Time is an omnipresent fact of life which seems to be natural and universal, but which also varies cross-culturally. The book demonstrates the usefulness of knowledge on cultural time conceptions for the understanding of local cultures in general (what is important within anthropology) and for health-related issues in particular (what reveals the interdisciplinary relevance of time studies). By comparing the important health economical concept of "time preference" with local notions and practices pertaining to time in rural Burkina Faso, the transferability of a Western temporal concept to a non-Western -- here Burkinabe -- context is tested and evaluated. The book hence shows the significance of socio-cultural time studies for epistemological as well as applied and interdisciplinary scientific interests.
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral - Heidelberg) under the title: "Patience is the future" : cultural concepts of time and their manifestations in health-related time preferences ...

Includes bibliographical references (p. [236]-253).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The research context; title: Theories on time; title: Time conceptions in Burkina Faso; title: Health and illness in Burkina Faso; title: Time preference: a temporal dimension in the health domain; title: Conclusion.