Contemporary Futures : Perspectives from Social Anthropology
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
ASA Monographs
ISBN-10
0415066638
ISBN-13
9780415066631
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 26th, 1992
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
340 grams
Product Classification:
Cultural studiesAnthropology
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Contemporary Futures explores the implications of visualising the future and the consequences this has on the present and on our relationship with other cultures.
In industrial societies imagining the future is a serious business; our assumptions about the future govern the present management of domestic, national and global resources, and are projected, some would say inflicted, on societies whose visions are different. Contemporary Futures focuses not so much on whether the future can be known, but on interpreting the way we and others picture it. The contributors, all social anthropologists, explore the effects that this picture has on the present, on group identity and belief in the self and its survival, on our relationships with other cultures, and on the future itself. They provide a cross-cultural perspective on a range of futures visualised at this time and discusses the implications of
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