Discussions: Frascati

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. General Editor's Preface V
3. Foreword IX
4. Introduction XVII
5. SECTION ONE The Future as a New Dimension of Anthropology
6. The Contribution of Anthropology to the Science of the Future 3
7. Futuristics and the Imaging Capacity of the West 7
8. Toward Human Futuristics 33
9. SECTION TWO Anthropological Insights for Social Policy: Western View
10. The Possible and the Desirable: Population and Environmental Problems 63
11. The Prehistory of Homo sapiens: Touchstone for the Future 71
12. Ecosystems and Economic Systems 101
13. Futurism in Man: Humanism, Social Technology, and Survival 125
14. SECTION THREE Anthropological Insights for Social Policy: Third World Views
15. The Concept of Heterogeneity and Change Among the Mandenka 145
16. Resistance to Early Western Education in Eastern Nigeria 163
17. The Relevance of African Traditional Medicine in Modern Medical Training and Practice 179
18. Managing the Ecosystem of World Nations 195
19. Social Determinism and Social Change: An Analysis of Alternatives for the Future Development of Papua New Guinea 207
20. Discussions: Chicago 229
21. Discussions: Frascati 243
22. SECTION FOUR Conceptualization of the Future in Various Cultures
23. Past and Future Culture Change: A Quest for Variant Explanations 259
24. Ideas Concerning Maya Concepts of the Future 273
25. Traditional Greek Conceptions of the Future 283
26. The Future in the Past: Toward a Utopian Syntax 293
27. SECTION FIVE Anthropological Perspectives of Social Movements and Cultural Trends
28. Fumbling Freely into the Future 315
29. Familism and the Creation of Futures 363
30. Cultural Heterogeneity in Social Systems: Its Policy Implications 379
31. SECTION SIX Perception, Action, Research Paradigm, and Policy Design
32. Toward Polyocular Anthropology 435
33. Symbiotization of Cultural Heterogeneity: Scientific, Epistemological, and Aesthetic Bases 455
34. Ways of Perceiving Oneself in Urban Planning Interaction 475
35. SECTION SEVEN Education for the Future
36. "The Anthropology of the Future" as an Academic Discipline 509
37. Futurizing the Power Industry 529
38. SECTION EIGHT Future Cultural Alternatives: Imaginative Use of Anthropology
39. A Future History 561
40. Univaria 593
41. A Socialist Alternative for the Future 613
42. The State of Anthropology Today: A Comment 629
43. APPENDIX 633
44. Biographical Notes 645
45. Index of Names 653
46. Index of Subjects 659