ISBN:
9780415066631
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (244 p)
Series Statement:
ASA Monographs
Parallel Title:
Print version Contemporary Futures : Perspectives from Social Anthropology
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Contemporary Futures explores the implications of visualising the future and the consequences this has on the present and on our relationship with other cultures
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Contemporary Futures; The death of the future; Trapped in the present: the past, present and future of a group of old people in East London; Posterity and paradox: some uses of time capsules; On predicting the future: parish rituals and patronage in Malta; Lines, cycles and transformations: temporal perspectives on Inuit action; Going there and getting there: the future as a legitimating charter for life in the present
Description / Table of Contents:
Time past, time present, time future: contrasting temporal values in two Southeast Asian societiesSaving the rain forest? Contested futures in conservation; Sustainable anthropology: ecology and anthropology in the future; Reproducing anthropology; The Marabar Caves, 1920 2020; A future for social anthropology?; Name index; Subject index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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