TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bryant, Rebecca
AU  - Knight, Daniel M.
PY  - 2019
DA  - 2019//
TI  - anthropology of the future
T3  - New departures in anthropology
PB  - Cambridge University Press
CY  - Cambridge
KW  - Future, The
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Time
KW  - Expectation (Philosophy)
KW  - Hope
KW  - Opportunity
KW  - Fortune
KW  - Future, The ; Social aspects
KW  - Time ; Social aspects
AB  - 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.
SN  - 9781108378277
UR  - https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781108378277/type/BOOK
LA  - English
N1  - Rebecca Bryant, Daniel M. Knight.
ID  - 1667780816
ER  -