All tomorrow's cultures : anthropological engagements with the future / Samuel Gerald Collins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collins, Samuel Gerald.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--Philosophy.

Anthropology.

Future, The, in popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (150 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 126-137) and index.

ISBN:

9786612626722

9781282626720

1282626728

9780857450210

0857450212

OCLC:

647933896