The emerging global crisis and development anthropology : Can we have an impact?

The emerging global crisis and development anthropology : Can we have an impact?

Scenarios for the 21st century range from technology and business-oriented visions of a global boom to more pessimistic ones based on increasing environmental degradation, poverty with a rising gap between rich and poor, and societal breakdown. Drawing on his own views and those of 53 other anthropo...

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Veröffentlicht in:Human organization 1999, Vol.58 (4), p.351-364
1. Verfasser: SCUDDER, T
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
21st century
Acculturation, contemporary social changes. (cultural action - rights of indigenous peoples )
Anthropologists
Anthropology
Economic Change
Economic development
Environmental Degradation
Ethnology
Future
Generalities
Globalization
Low income groups
Pessimism
Poverty
Social Change
Social Development
Social Inequality
Technology
Twenty First Century
World Problems
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Zusammenfassung:Scenarios for the 21st century range from technology and business-oriented visions of a global boom to more pessimistic ones based on increasing environmental degradation, poverty with a rising gap between rich and poor, and societal breakdown. Drawing on his own views and those of 53 other anthropologists, the author discusses the likelihood of the more pessimistic vision prevailing if present trends continue.
ISSN:0018-7259
1938-3525
DOI:10.17730/humo.58.4.m5v08223140050u7