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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Collins, Samuel Gerald
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.
Edición:1st ed.
Temas:
Anthropology > Philosophy.
Future, The, in popular culture.
Anthropologie > Philosophie.
Futur dans la culture populaire.
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.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (ix, 140 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 126-137) and index.
ISBN:9780857450210
0857450212
1282626728
9781282626720
9786612626722
6612626720

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