All tomorrow's cultures [[electronic resource] ] : anthropological engagements with the future / / Samuel Gerald Collins

• Autore: Collins Samuel Gerald
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Berghahn Books, 2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (150 p.)
• Disciplina: 301.01
• Soggetto topico: Anthropology - Philosophy; Future, The, in popular culture
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 126-137) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Title Page - All Tomorrow's Cultures; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Tomorrow's Cultures Today?; Chapter 1: Anthropological Time Machine; Chapter 2: Margaret Mead Answers; Chapter 3: Chad Oliver; Chapter 4: Close Encounters of the Anthrolological Kind; Chapter 5: Playing Games with Futurology; Chapter 6: The Surprising Future; Conclusion: The Open Future; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: All tomorrow's cultures
• ISBN: 1-282-62672-8; 9786612626722; 0-85745-021-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785042103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II