Ebook: All tomorrow's cultures: anthropological engagements with the future

Introduction: Tomorrow's cultures today? -- Anthropoligical time machines: setting the controls for the future -- Margaret Mead answers (about the future) -- Chad Oliver: an anthropologist on Star Trek -- Close encounters of the anthropological kind -- Playing games with futurology -- The suprising future -- Conclusion: The open future.;How will we live in the future? Are we moving towards global homogeneity? Will the world succumb to the global spread of fast food and Hollywood movies? Or are there other possibilities? In this book, Samuel Collins argues not only for the importance of the future of culture, but also stresses its centrality in anthropological thought over the last century. Beginning with 19th-century anthropology and continuing today in the work of anthropologies of emergent sciences, anthropologists have not only used their knowledge of present cultural configurations to speculate on future culture but have.