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Contemporary futures : perspectives from social anthropology / edited by Sandra Wallman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: A.S.A. monographs ; 30.Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 231 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0203450558
  • 9780203450550
  • 9780415066631
  • 0415066638
  • 9786610075300
  • 6610075301
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Contemporary futures.DDC classification:
  • 306 22
LOC classification:
  • GN29 .C594 1992eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Holdings
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eBook eBook e-Library EBSCO Social Science Available
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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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