ISBN:
9780415066631
,
0415066638
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0203450558
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9780203450550
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (viii, 231 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
A.S.A. monographs 30
Parallel Title:
Print version Contemporary futures
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Anthropology Forecasting
;
Industries Social aspects
;
Forecasting
;
Anthropologie Prévision
;
Industrie Aspect social
;
Prévision
;
Anthropology Forecasting
;
Industries Social aspects
;
Forecasting
;
Industries Social aspects
;
Forecasting
;
Anthropology Forecasting
;
Electronic books
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
;
Anthropology ; Forecasting
;
Industries ; Social aspects ; Forecasting
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Konferenzschrift 1990
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Konferenzschrift 1990
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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
Abstract:
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.
Description / Table of Contents:
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.
Note:
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada. - Includes bibliographical references and indexes. - Description based on print version record
,
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
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