All Tomorrow's Cultures (eBook)

Anthropological Engagements with the Future

Samuel Gerald Collins (Autor)

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2008
150 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-0-85745-021-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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 also used their assumptions about the future of culture to understand the present.

Autor

Samuel Gerald Collins is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Towson University. He researches globalization and information society in the United States and South Korea and has recently begun ethnographic research on multiagent systems composed of humans and robots.

Inhalt

Introduction: Tomorrow’s Cultures Today?

Chapter 1. Anthropological Time Machines
Chapter 2. Ask Margaret Mead
Chapter 3. Chad Oliver
Chapter 4. Close Encounters
Chapter 5. Playing Games with Futurology
Chapter 6. The Surprising Future

Conclusion: The Open Future

References
Index

Produkt-Details

• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Methodology in Anthropology • Theory &amp • Theory & Methodology in Anthropology
• ISBN-10: 0-85745-021-2 / 0857450212
• ISBN-13: 978-0-85745-021-0 / 9780857450210