Abstract
Abstract Some reflections on the reckoning of time among the Luo people of western Kenya are offered as a contribution to the evolving discussion on differences in the ways that time is conceptualized by archaeologists and by the people who are the subjects of archaeological research. In particular, the paper examines the ways that the passage of time is conceived of and represented in a society which has not yet been entirely converted to the conceptions of temporality that underlie Western capitalist societies (and the academic disciplines which are a part of them), as well as offering some observations about potential ramifications for archaeological interpretation. Luo time‐reckoning is shown to be a relational process in which cyclical and linear conceptions of time are articulated to discern sequence and duration, and temporality is shown to be a pervasive feature of representations of social relations and identity.
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