All tomorrow's cultures : anthropological engagements with the future

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

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 c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Collins, Samuel Gerald
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
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.
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Table of 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.

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