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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sandra Wallman |
| ISBN: | 0415066638 9780415066631 9780203450550 0203450558 |
| OCLC Number: | 25628962 |
| Notes: | Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada. |
| Credits: | "... based on the annual ASA Conference held at the University of Edinburgh in April 1990." - Acknowledgements. |
| Description: | viii, 231 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| 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. |
| Series Title: | A.S.A. monographs, 30. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Sandra Wallman. |
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