synchronization, see coordination and synchronization
T
Tai Chi, 218, 223–4, 226, 229
Taylor, L., 221
tea ceremony, 174–5
tea drinking, 9, 189–201
technical inventions, see inventions
technology use in Ghana, 218, 226–8
tedium, 99 see also boredom
telephone use, 20 see also mobile phones
Thompson, E.P., 2
Thrift, N., 17, 30, 36
time buying, 157–68 conceptions of, 35–8, 146 consumption of, 17, 19–22 and everyday practices, 17–30 production of, 4–5, 17 study of, 2–3
time pressure, 49–51, 53, 60–1, 145
timespace, 7, 9 and social life, 35–47, 50–1 and tea drinking, 194
traffic congestion, 68, 70
Trentmann, Frank, 8
Turkey, tea drinking in, 9, 189–201
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 117
V
Valentine’s Day, 182–3 Veblen, Thorstein, 145 volition, see choice
W
water consumption, 20–1
water shortages, 67, 79–80, 108–9
Weber, Max, 144
Weiner, A., 163
White, E.B., 115–16, 117, 121, 123
White, H.C., 137, 138
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