Examining how people alter or customize various dimensions of their temporal experience, this volume discovers how we resist external sources of temporal constraint or structure. These ethnographic studies are international in scope and look at many different countries and continents. They come to the overall conclusion that people construct their own circumstances with the intention to modify their experience of time.

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

PART I: BEGINNINGS, CONCEPTS, AND QUESTIONS

IntroductionMichael G. Flaherty, Anne Line Dalsgård, and Lotte Meinert

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

PART II: TEMPORAL AFFLICTIONS

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

Chapter 3.ADHD and Temporal Experiences: Struggling for SynchronizationMikka Nielsen

PART III: THE POLITICS OF TIME

Chapter 4. Hacking Time and Looping Temporalities in the Identification of the Adult Living Disappeared in ArgentinaNoa Vaisman

Chapter 5. Temporal Front and Back Stages: Time Work as ResistanceLisa-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 PernambucoClarissa Martins Lima

Chapter 7. It Is Just Doing the Motion: Atheist Time Work in Contemporary KyrgyzstanMaria Louw

PART V: REINVENTING THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

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

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

PART VI: TIME AND DEPRIVATION

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

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

AfterwordCarmen Leccardi

Index