All tomorrow's cultures : anthropological engagements with the future /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
New York :
Berghahn Books,
2008.
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Edición: | 1st ed. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 140 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 126-137) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780857450210 0857450212 1282626728 9781282626720 9786612626722 6612626720 |