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Anticipatory anthropology – anthropological future study
Anticipatory anthropology – anthropological future study

Author(s): Celina Strzelecka
Subject(s): Anthropology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Futurology; anticipatory anthropology; anthropological future study; futurist; culture study

Summary/Abstract: The author deliberates the fusion of two disciplines – futurology and cultural anthropology. She tries to indicate some anthropological tools and methods which are suitable to deduce cultural future and advances a thesis that the future is nowadays an inevitable area of study for cultural anthropology. By making the critical analysis of social threats, hopes and by critical observation of contemporary cultural trends anthropologists are able to construct the possible view of future. The project, described in the text, aims at preparing for changes and proving that anthropology enables predicting the future of the culture.

  • Issue Year: 41/2013
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 261–269
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: English