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Professor Thomas Yarrow's Outputs (4)

Growing Old Gracefully? (2015)
Other
Douglas-Jones, R., Hughes, J., Jones, S., & Yarrow, T. (2015). Growing Old Gracefully?

Detachment: essays on the limits of relational thinking (2015)
Book
Yarrow, T., Candea, M., Trundle, C., & Cook, J. (Eds.). (2015). Detachment: essays on the limits of relational thinking. Manchester University Press

This interdisciplinary volume questions one of the most fundamental tenets of social theory by focusing on detachment, an important but neglected aspect of social life. Going against the grain of recent theoretical celebrations of ‘engagement’, this... Read More about Detachment: essays on the limits of relational thinking.

Introduction: reconsidering detachment (2015)
Book Chapter
Candea, C., Cook, J., Trundle, C., & Yarrow, T. (2015). Introduction: reconsidering detachment. In C. Candea, J. Cook, C. Trundle, & T. Yarrow (Eds.), Detachment: essays on the limits of relational thinking (1-34). Manchester University Press

This volume urges a reconsideration of the productive potential of disconnection, distance and detachment, as ethical, methodological and philosophical commitments. In so doing, we write against the grain of a strong tendency in contemporary social t... Read More about Introduction: reconsidering detachment.

Archaeology, Anthropology and the Stuff of Time (2015)
Journal Article
Yarrow, T. (2015). Archaeology, Anthropology and the Stuff of Time. Archaeological Dialogues, 22(1), 31-36. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1380203815000070

Lucas's discussion of contemporaneity makes an important contribution to archaeological understandings of chronology and dating and to broader debates about temporality. Extending his earlier work on time (Buchli and Lucas 2001; Lucas 2001; 2005), Lu... Read More about Archaeology, Anthropology and the Stuff of Time.