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Contemporary futures : perspectives from social anthropology

Author: Sandra Wallman
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.
Series: A.S.A. monographs, 30.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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