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Titolo: | Contemporary futures : perspectives from social anthropology / / edited by Sandra Wallman |
Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1992 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
Disciplina: | 301 |
306 | |
Soggetto topico: | Anthropology - Forecasting |
Industries - Social aspects - Forecasting | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | WallmanSandra |
Note generali: | Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
Nota di contenuto: | Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Contemporary Futures; The death of the future; Trapped in the present: the past, present and future of a group of old people in East London; Posterity and paradox: some uses of time capsules; On predicting the future: parish rituals and patronage in Malta; Lines, cycles and transformations: temporal perspectives on Inuit action; Going there and getting there: the future as a legitimating charter for life in the present |
Time past, time present, time future: contrasting temporal values in two Southeast Asian societiesSaving the rain forest? Contested futures in conservation; Sustainable anthropology: ecology and anthropology in the future; Reproducing anthropology; The Marabar Caves, 1920 2020; A future for social anthropology?; Name index; Subject index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Contemporary Futures explores the implications of visualising the future and the consequences this has on the present and on our relationship with other cultures. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Contemporary futures |
ISBN: | 1-134-91942-5 |
1-138-16123-3 | |
1-280-07530-9 | |
0-203-45055-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910450351503321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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