ID - 47078816 TI - The anthropology of the future AU - Bryant, Rebecca AU - Knight, Daniel M PY - 2019 SN - 9781108421850 9781108434379 1108421857 1108434371 9781108378277 1108389945 1108378277 1108386342 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Civilisation KW - Ethnology. Cultural anthropology KW - Future, The KW - Time KW - Expectation (Philosophy) KW - Hope KW - Opportunity KW - Fortune KW - #SBIB:39A3 KW - #SBIB:39A4 KW - Anticipation (Philosophy) KW - Philosophy KW - Luck KW - Emotions KW - Social aspects KW - Antropologie: geschiedenis, theorie, wetenschap (incl. grondleggers van de antropologie als wetenschap) KW - Toegepaste antropologie KW - Hope. KW - Opportunity. KW - Fortune. KW - Social aspects. KW - Prévision KW - Futur (philosophie) KW - Espérance KW - Aspect social. KW - Future, The - Social aspects KW - Time - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:47078816 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. ER -