Papers by Caroline McLoughlin
Anthropological Theory, 2010
This ethnographic examination of practices of quantification among competitive recreational runne... more This ethnographic examination of practices of quantification among competitive recreational runners focuses particularly on New York City-based writers and the [ING] New York Marathon. Precision timing, race management, differing conceptions of time, time-based training practices, and the publication, exchanges, and circulation of times, as well as meanings attached thereto, are discussed. Numbers allow for competition to take place and personal
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Anthropological Theory, 2010
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Anthropological Theory, 2010
SENSATIONS OF THE NUMBER FRONTIER The papers in this collection show how anthropologists are seei... more SENSATIONS OF THE NUMBER FRONTIER The papers in this collection show how anthropologists are seeing numbers as insur-gently prominent in people's descriptions, imaginations and efforts to influence their social worlds in the 21st century. This topic presented itself with urgency ...
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