The Anthropology of the Future

The Anthropology of the Future
Author: Rebecca Bryant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2019-03-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1108421857

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Anticipation -- Expectation -- Speculation -- Potentiality -- Hope -- Destiny.

The Anthropology of the Future

The Anthropology of the Future
Author: Rebecca Bryant (Professor of anthropology)
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019
Genre: Expectation (Philosophy)
ISBN: 9781108378277

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Study of the future is an important new field in anthropology. Building on a philosophical tradition running from Aristotle through Heidegger to Schatzki, this book presents the concept of 'orientations' as a way to study everyday life. It analyses six main orientations - anticipation, expectation, speculation, potentiality, hope, and destiny - which represent different ways in which the future may affect our present. While orientations entail planning towards and imagining the future, they also often involve the collapse or exhaustion of those efforts: moments where hope may turn to apathy, frustrated planning to disillusion, and imagination to fatigue. By examining these orientations at different points, the authors argue for an anthropology that takes fuller account of the teleologies of action.

The Anthropology of the Future

The Anthropology of the Future
Author: Rebecca Bryant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2019-03-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1108386342

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Study of the future is an important new field in anthropology. Building on a philosophical tradition running from Aristotle through Heidegger to Schatzki, this book presents the concept of 'orientations' as a way to study everyday life. It analyses six main orientations - anticipation, expectation, speculation, potentiality, hope, and destiny - which represent different ways in which the future may affect our present. While orientations entail planning towards and imagining the future, they also often involve the collapse or exhaustion of those efforts: moments where hope may turn to apathy, frustrated planning to disillusion, and imagination to fatigue. By examining these orientations at different points, the authors argue for an anthropology that takes fuller account of the teleologies of action.

Archaeology and Anthropology

Archaeology and Anthropology
Author: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2013-08-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0857854194

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Though archaeologists have long acknowledged the work of social anthropologists, anthropologists have been much less eager to repay the compliment. This volume argues that the time has come to recognise the insights archaeological approaches can bring to anthropology. Archaeology's rigorous approach to evidence and material culture; its ability to develop flexible research methodologies; its readiness to work with large-scale models of comparative social change, and to embrace the latest technology all means that it can offer valuable methods that can enrich and enhance current anthropological thinking. Cross-disciplinary and international in scope, this exciting volume draws together cutting-edge essays on the relationship between the two disciplines, arguing for greater collaboration and pointing to new concepts and approaches for anthropology. With contributions from leading scholars, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars of archaeology, anthropology and related disciplines.

Anthropologies and Futures

Anthropologies and Futures
Author: Juan Francisco Salazar
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2017-05-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1474264891

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Anthropology has a critical, practical role to play in contemporary debates about futures. This game-changing new book presents new ways of conceptualising how to engage with a future-oriented research agenda, demonstrating how anthropologists can approach futures both theoretically and practically, and introducing a set of innovative research methods to tackle this field of research. Anthropology and Futures brings together a group of leading scholars from across the world, including Sarah Pink, Rayna Rapp, Faye Ginsburg and Paul Stoller. Firmly grounded in ethnographic fieldwork experience, the book's fifteen chapters traverse ethnographies with people living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda, disability activists in the U.S., young Muslim women in Copenhagen, refugees in Milan, future-makers in Barcelona, planning and land futures in the UK, the design of workspaces in Melbourne, rewilding in the French Pyrenees, and speculative ethnographies among emerging communities in Antarctica. Taking a strong interdisciplinary approach, the authors respond to growing interest in the topic of futures in anthropology and beyond. This ground-breaking text is a call for more engaged, interventional and applied anthropologies. It is essential reading for students and researchers in anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, design and research methods.

Man After Man

Man After Man
Author: Dougal Dixon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 1990
Genre: Human evolution
ISBN: 9780713723144

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Back to the Postindustrial Future

Back to the Postindustrial Future
Author: Felix Ringel
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2018-03-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1785337998

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How does an urban community come to terms with the loss of its future? The former socialist model city of Hoyerswerda is an extreme case of a declining postindustrial city. Built to serve the GDR coal industry, it lost over half its population to outmigration after German reunification and the coal industry crisis, leading to the large-scale deconstruction of its cityscape. This book tells the story of its inhabitants, now forced to reconsider their futures. Building on recent theoretical work, it advances a new anthropological approach to time, allowing us to investigate the postindustrial era and the futures it has supposedly lost.

The Future of Visual Anthropology

The Future of Visual Anthropology
Author: Sarah Pink
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2006-05-10
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1134247133

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From an eminent author in the field, The Future of Visual Anthropology develops a new approach to visual anthropology and presents a groundbreaking examination of developments within the field and the way forward for the subdiscipline in the twenty-first century. The explosion of visual media in recent years has generated a wide range of visual and digital technologies which have transformed visual research and analysis. The result is an exciting new interdisciplinary approach of great potential influence for the future of social/cultural anthropology. Sarah Pink argues that this potential can be harnessed by engaging visual anthropology with its wider contexts, including: the increasing use of visual research methods across the social sciences and humanities the growth in popularity of the visual as methodology and object of analysis within mainstream anthropology and applied anthropology the growing interest in 'anthropology of the senses' and media anthropology the development of new visual technologies that allow anthropologists to work in new ways. This book has immense interdisciplinary potential, and is essential reading for students, researchers and practitioners of visual anthropology, media anthropology, visual cultural studies, media studies and sociology.

Feminist Anthropology

Feminist Anthropology
Author: Pamela L. Geller
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2006
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780812220056

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Feminist Anthropology probes critical issues in the study of gender, sex, and sexuality. While feminist anthropology is often perceived as fragmented, this vital new work establishes common ground and situates feminist inquiries within the larger context of social theory and anthropological practice.

Lands of the Future

Lands of the Future
Author: Echi Christina Gabbert
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2021-01-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1805393782

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Rangeland, forests and riverine landscapes of pastoral communities in Eastern Africa are increasingly under threat. Abetted by states who think that outsiders can better use the lands than the people who have lived there for centuries, outside commercial interests have displaced indigenous dwellers from pastoral territories. This volume presents case studies from Eastern Africa, based on long-term field research, that vividly illustrate the struggles and strategies of those who face dispossession and also discredit ideological false modernist tropes like ‘backwardness’ and ‘primitiveness’.