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Cultures of the Future / ed. by Arthur M. Harkins, Magoroh Maruyama.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary SeriesPublisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]Copyright date: ©1978Edition: Reprint 2011Description: 1 online resource (667 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789027979797
  • 9783110800067
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.2 22
LOC classification:
  • CB158
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
I-IV -- General Editor's Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- SECTION ONE The Future as a New Dimension of Anthropology -- The Contribution of Anthropology to the Science of the Future -- Futuristics and the Imaging Capacity of the West -- Toward Human Futuristics -- SECTION TWO Anthropological Insights for Social Policy: Western View -- The Possible and the Desirable: Population and Environmental Problems -- The Prehistory of Homo sapiens: Touchstone for the Future -- Ecosystems and Economic Systems -- Futurism in Man: Humanism, Social Technology, and Survival -- SECTION THREE Anthropological Insights for Social Policy: Third World Views -- The Concept of Heterogeneity and Change Among the Mandenka -- Resistance to Early Western Education in Eastern Nigeria -- The Relevance of African Traditional Medicine in Modern Medical Training and Practice -- Managing the Ecosystem of World Nations -- Social Determinism and Social Change: An Analysis of Alternatives for the Future Development of Papua New Guinea -- Discussions: Chicago -- Discussions: Frascati -- SECTION FOUR Conceptualization of the Future in Various Cultures -- Past and Future Culture Change: A Quest for Variant Explanations -- Ideas Concerning Maya Concepts of the Future -- Traditional Greek Conceptions of the Future -- The Future in the Past: Toward a Utopian Syntax -- SECTION FIVE Anthropological Perspectives of Social Movements and Cultural Trends -- Fumbling Freely into the Future -- Familism and the Creation of Futures -- Cultural Heterogeneity in Social Systems: Its Policy Implications -- SECTION SIX Perception, Action, Research Paradigm, and Policy Design -- Toward Polyocular Anthropology -- Symbiotization of Cultural Heterogeneity: Scientific, Epistemological, and Aesthetic Bases -- Ways of Perceiving Oneself in Urban Planning Interaction -- SECTION SEVEN Education for the Future -- "The Anthropology of the Future" as an Academic Discipline -- Futurizing the Power Industry -- SECTION EIGHT Future Cultural Alternatives: Imaginative Use of Anthropology -- A Future History -- Univaria -- A Socialist Alternative for the Future -- The State of Anthropology Today: A Comment -- APPENDIX -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects
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I-IV -- General Editor's Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- SECTION ONE The Future as a New Dimension of Anthropology -- The Contribution of Anthropology to the Science of the Future -- Futuristics and the Imaging Capacity of the West -- Toward Human Futuristics -- SECTION TWO Anthropological Insights for Social Policy: Western View -- The Possible and the Desirable: Population and Environmental Problems -- The Prehistory of Homo sapiens: Touchstone for the Future -- Ecosystems and Economic Systems -- Futurism in Man: Humanism, Social Technology, and Survival -- SECTION THREE Anthropological Insights for Social Policy: Third World Views -- The Concept of Heterogeneity and Change Among the Mandenka -- Resistance to Early Western Education in Eastern Nigeria -- The Relevance of African Traditional Medicine in Modern Medical Training and Practice -- Managing the Ecosystem of World Nations -- Social Determinism and Social Change: An Analysis of Alternatives for the Future Development of Papua New Guinea -- Discussions: Chicago -- Discussions: Frascati -- SECTION FOUR Conceptualization of the Future in Various Cultures -- Past and Future Culture Change: A Quest for Variant Explanations -- Ideas Concerning Maya Concepts of the Future -- Traditional Greek Conceptions of the Future -- The Future in the Past: Toward a Utopian Syntax -- SECTION FIVE Anthropological Perspectives of Social Movements and Cultural Trends -- Fumbling Freely into the Future -- Familism and the Creation of Futures -- Cultural Heterogeneity in Social Systems: Its Policy Implications -- SECTION SIX Perception, Action, Research Paradigm, and Policy Design -- Toward Polyocular Anthropology -- Symbiotization of Cultural Heterogeneity: Scientific, Epistemological, and Aesthetic Bases -- Ways of Perceiving Oneself in Urban Planning Interaction -- SECTION SEVEN Education for the Future -- "The Anthropology of the Future" as an Academic Discipline -- Futurizing the Power Industry -- SECTION EIGHT Future Cultural Alternatives: Imaginative Use of Anthropology -- A Future History -- Univaria -- A Socialist Alternative for the Future -- The State of Anthropology Today: A Comment -- APPENDIX -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects

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In English.

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