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‘All We Needed to do was Blow the Whistle’: Children’s Embodiment of Time
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Children’s experience of time as a social category is, as this chapter will show, mediated through a series of cultural narratives that are focused upon the self and body in terms of appearance and behavioural practices. However, these narratives are not peculiar to children but are derived from the historical progress of modern cultures and, in particular, from both conceptualizations of time passing and understandings of the self as embodied and placeable (Csordas 1994).
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