The death of the future / David Lowenthal -- Trapped in the present / Guro Huby -- Posterity and paradox / Brian Durrans -- On predicting the future / Jeremy Boissevain -- Lines, cycles and transformations / Jean L. Briggs -- Going there and getting there / C Bawa Yamba -- Time past, time present, time future / Signe Howell -- Saving the rain forest? / Paul Richards -- Sustainable anthropology / Peter Harries-Jones -- Reproducing anthropology / Marilyn Strathern -- The Marabar Caves, 1920-2020 / Robert Paine -- A future for social anthropology? / Raymond Firth.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
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Title
Contemporary futures.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Anthropology-- Forecasting.
Industries-- Social aspects-- Forecasting.
Anthropologie-- Prévision.
Industrie-- Aspect social-- Prévision.
Anthropology-- Forecasting.
Industries-- Social aspects-- Forecasting.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.