The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future

by Margaret Mead and Robert B. Textor

Book Overview

Born in the first year of the 20th century, it is fitting that Margaret Mead should have been one of the first anthropologists to use anthropological analysis to study the future course of human civilization. This volume collects, for the first time, her writings on the future of humanity and how humans can shape that future through purposeful action. For Mead, the study of the future was born out of her lifelong interest in processes of change...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571818189
• ISBN13: 9781571818188
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"