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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: BACON, EDMUND,; BENELLO, C. GEORGE,; BOULDING, ELISE,; CAMARA, SORY,; GERLACH, LUTHER P.,; GHABBOUR, SAMIR I.,; GIFFORD, JAMES C.,; HARKINS, ARTHUR M.,; IMSLAND, DONALD O.,; JACOBS, SUE-ELLEN,; KEUR, DOROTHY L.,; LADUE, RUSSELL,; LEFFERTS, H. L.,; MARUYAMA, MAGOROH,; MCKNIGHT, ROBERT Κ.,; MEAD, MARGARET,; MOULIK, Τ. K.,; NDETI, KIVUTO,; NWA-CHIL, CHUDI C.,; POLGAR, STEVEN,; RUYLE, EUGENE E.,; SHERARTS, I. KAREN,; SHUMAN, JACK N.,; TOFFLER, ALVIN,; VLACHOS, EVAN,; WESCOTT, ROGER W.,; WILDEN, ANTHONY,; WOODS, RICHARD G.,
• HerausgeberIn: Harkins, Arthur M.,; Maruyama, Magoroh,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1978
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (667 p.)

Table of 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