Contemporary Futures explores the implications of visualising the future and the consequences this has on the present and on our relationship with other cultures.
Contemporary Futures explores the implications of visualising the future and the consequences this has on the present and on our relationship with other cultures.
Preface Introduction: Contemporary Futures ( Sandra Wallman) Part One: Perspectives on Industrial Society 1. The Death of the Future David Lowenthal 2. Trapped in the Present: the past, present and future of a group of old people in East London. Guro Huby 3. Posterity and Paradox: some uses of time capsules Brian Durrans 4. On Predicting the Future: parish rituals and patronage in Malta Jeremy Boessevain Part Two: Perspectives on Non-Industrial Society 5. Lines, Cycles, and Transformations: temporal perspectives on Inuit action Jean L. Briggs 6. Going There and Getting There: the future as a legitimating charter for life in the present C. Bawa Yamba 7. Time past, Time Present, Time Future: contrasting temporal values in two southeast Asian societies Signe Howell 8. Saving the Rain Forest? contested futures in conservation Paul Richards Part Three: Perspectives on the Future of Anthropology 9. Sustainable Anthropology: ecology and anthropology in the future Peter Harries-Jones 10. Reproducing Anthropology Marilyn Strathern 11. The Marabar Caves, 1920-2020 Robert Paine 12. A Future for Social Anthropology? Raymond Firth Index Notes on contributors.
Preface Introduction: Contemporary Futures ( Sandra Wallman) Part One: Perspectives on Industrial Society 1. The Death of the Future David Lowenthal 2. Trapped in the Present: the past, present and future of a group of old people in East London. Guro Huby 3. Posterity and Paradox: some uses of time capsules Brian Durrans 4. On Predicting the Future: parish rituals and patronage in Malta Jeremy Boessevain Part Two: Perspectives on Non-Industrial Society 5. Lines, Cycles, and Transformations: temporal perspectives on Inuit action Jean L. Briggs 6. Going There and Getting There: the future as a legitimating charter for life in the present C. Bawa Yamba 7. Time past, Time Present, Time Future: contrasting temporal values in two southeast Asian societies Signe Howell 8. Saving the Rain Forest? contested futures in conservation Paul Richards Part Three: Perspectives on the Future of Anthropology 9. Sustainable Anthropology: ecology and anthropology in the future Peter Harries-Jones 10. Reproducing Anthropology Marilyn Strathern 11. The Marabar Caves, 1920-2020 Robert Paine 12. A Future for Social Anthropology? Raymond Firth Index Notes on contributors.
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