Rebecca Bryant (The Netherlands Universiteit Utrecht), Daniel M. Knight (Scotland University of St Andrews)

The Anthropology of the Future

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Positing new questions and using innovative methods, this book discusses the future as a newly emerging field in anthropology. It will be welcomed by students and researchers in cultural and social anthropology, anthropological theory, history and philosophy.

Produktdetails

• New Departures in Anthropology
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9781108434379
• ISBN-10: 1108434371
• Artikelnr.: 54803910

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the future of the future in anthropology
1. Anticipation
2. Expectation
3. Speculation
4. Potentiality
5. Hope
6. Destiny
Conclusion: the future as method.