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Author Collins, Samuel Gerald

Title All tomorrow's cultures : anthropological engagements with the future / Samuel Gerald Collins
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 140 pages)
Contents Introduction: Tomorrow's cultures today? -- Anthropoligical time machines: setting the controls for the future -- Margaret Mead answers (about the future) -- Chad Oliver: an anthropologist on Star Trek -- Close encounters of the anthropological kind -- Playing games with futurology -- The suprising future -- Conclusion: The open future
Summary How will we live in the future? Are we moving towards global homogeneity? Will the world succumb to the global spread of fast food and Hollywood movies? Or are there other possibilities? In this book, Samuel Collins argues not only for the importance of the future of culture, but also stresses its centrality in anthropological thought over the last century. Beginning with 19th-century anthropology and continuing today in the work of anthropologies of emergent sciences, anthropologists have not only used their knowledge of present cultural configurations to speculate on future culture but have
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 126-137) and index
Notes English
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Subject Anthropology -- Philosophy
Future, The, in popular culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Methodology.
Anthropology -- Philosophy
Future, The, in popular culture
Futurologie
Anthropologie
Antropologische aspecten.
Toekomst.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780857450210
0857450212
1282626728
9781282626720
9786612626722
6612626720