ISBN:
9780415066631
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0415066638
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0203450558
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9780203450550
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online Ressource (viii, 231 p.)
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ill.
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
Serie:
A.S.A. monographs 30
Paralleltitel:
Print version Contemporary futures
DDC:
306
Schlagwort(e):
Anthropology Forecasting
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Industries Social aspects
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Forecasting
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Anthropologie Prévision
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Industrie Aspect social
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Prévision
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Anthropology Forecasting
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Industries Social aspects
;
Forecasting
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Industries Social aspects
;
Forecasting
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Anthropology Forecasting
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Electronic books
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Anthropology ; Forecasting
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Industries ; Social aspects ; Forecasting
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Konferenzschrift 1990
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Aufsatzsammlung
Kurzfassung:
Contemporary Futures explores the implications of visualising the future and the consequences this has on the present and on our relationship with other cultures
Kurzfassung:
The death of the future / David Lowenthal -- Trapped in the present / Guro Huby -- Posterity and paradox / Brian Durrans -- On predicting the future / Jeremy Boissevain -- Lines, cycles and transformations / Jean L. Briggs -- Going there and getting there / C Bawa Yamba -- Time past, time present, time future / Signe Howell -- Saving the rain forest? / Paul Richards -- Sustainable anthropology / Peter Harries-Jones -- Reproducing anthropology / Marilyn Strathern -- The Marabar Caves, 1920-2020 / Robert Paine -- A future for social anthropology? / Raymond Firth.
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
The death of the future / David LowenthalTrapped in the present / Guro Huby -- Posterity and paradox / Brian Durrans -- On predicting the future / Jeremy Boissevain -- Lines, cycles and transformations / Jean L. Briggs -- Going there and getting there / C Bawa Yamba -- Time past, time present, time future / Signe Howell -- Saving the rain forest? / Paul Richards -- Sustainable anthropology / Peter Harries-Jones -- Reproducing anthropology / Marilyn Strathern -- The Marabar Caves, 1920-2020 / Robert Paine -- A future for social anthropology? / Raymond Firth.
Anmerkung:
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada. - Includes bibliographical references and indexes. - Description based on print version record
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
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