The Anthropology of the Future - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Rebecca Bryant, Daniel M. KnightSeries:New Departures in AnthropologyPublish date:3/28/2019Pages:236
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781108434379ISBN-10:1108434371UPC:9781108434379Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Human GeographyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:9.00 x 8.90 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.318Product ID:SCHFS2QRT3
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781108434379ISBN-10:1108434371UPC:9781108434379Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Human GeographyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:9.00 x 8.90 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.318Product ID:SCHFS2QRT3
Knight, Daniel M.: - Daniel M. Knight is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Director of the Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He writes on time and temporality, austerity and economy, and renewable energy. He is author of History, Time, and Economic Crisis in Central Greece (2015) and co-editor of History and Anthropology journal.Bryant, Rebecca: - Rebecca Bryant is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands. She is an anthropologist of politics and law. Among other works, she is author of The Past in Pieces: Belonging in the New Cyprus (2010), and De Facto Dreams: Building the So-Called State, co-authored with Mete Hatay (forthcoming).
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