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This chapter discusses the culturally and historically specific ways of creating and using calendars as a means to organize both time and human activity. Taking a cross-cultural perspective it analyzes European and East Asian calendar usages to cope with both the past and the future in the creation of historical consciousness(es).
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Matten, M.A. (2019). Calendar. In: Paul, H. (eds) Critical Terms in Futures Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28987-4_8
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