Times of the Self in Kingston, Jamaica†. Issue 3 (27th May 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wardle, Huon
• Is Part Of: Ethnos. Volume 82:Issue 3(2017)
• Page Start: 406
• Page End: 420
• Publication Date: 2017-05-27
• Subjects: Homo noumenon -- Revival Zion -- Kingston -- Jamaica -- Caribbean -- Kant -- reputation; Ethnology -- Periodicals; Archaeology -- Periodicals; 305.8
• DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2015.1084018
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0014-1844

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Revival Zionists – a small spiritist following in Jamaica – describe how their relations with spirits allow them to bring personal spiritual gifts to bear on every day or 'temporal' experience. Taking a hint from Kant that 'time itself does not change but only something which is in time', the article considers the timely logic of these 'gifts'. In a social-economic situation characterised by paucity of material resources but plenitude of labour-time, spiritual gifts reappear as a valued ground for a person's reputation. Likewise, we may also see them as one example of an attempt to organise the relationship between homo noumenon and homo temporalis .