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The Anthropology of the Future (New Departures in Anthropology) by Rebecca Bryant, (Professor of anthropology); Daniel M Knight is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Anthropology of the Future (New Departures in Anthropology) about?

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.

Who reads The Anthropology of the Future (New Departures in Anthropology)?

Author

Rebecca Bryant, (Professor of anthropology); Daniel M Knight

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781108421850

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Sociology, Social Sciences