By Juan Francisco Salazar,Sarah Pink,Andrew Irving,Johannes Sjöberg

ISBN-10: 1474264875

ISBN-13: 9781474264877

ISBN-10: 1474264883

ISBN-13: 9781474264884

Anthropology has a serious, sensible function to play in modern debates approximately futures. This game-changing new ebook provides new methods of conceptualising tips to interact with a future-oriented examine schedule, demonstrating how anthropologists can method futures either theoretically and essentially, and introducing a suite of cutting edge study how to take on this box of research.

Anthropology and Futures brings jointly a bunch of major students from the world over, together with Sarah crimson, Rayna Rapp, Faye Ginsburg and Paul Stoller. Firmly grounded in ethnographic fieldwork event, the book's fifteen chapters traverse ethnographies with humans dwelling with HIV/AIDS in Uganda, incapacity activists within the united states, younger Muslim ladies in Copenhagen, refugees in Milan, future-makers in Barcelona, making plans and land futures within the united kingdom, the layout of workspaces in Melbourne, rewilding within the French Pyrenees, and speculative ethnographies between rising groups in Antarctica.

Taking a powerful interdisciplinary strategy, the authors reply to growing to be curiosity within the subject of futures in anthropology and past. This ground-breaking textual content is a decision for extra engaged, interventional and utilized anthropologies. it really is crucial studying for college students and researchers in anthropology, sociology, cultural reports, layout and learn methods.

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