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. Many of these papers were originally published as conference proceedings or in limited-circulation journals, testimony before government bodies and chapters in works edited by others. They show Mead’s wisdom, prescience and concern for the future of humanity.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Series Preface
William O. Beeman
Introduction
Robert B. Textor
- Margaret Mead’s Historic Contribution
- Mead and Futures Studies
- Mead’s Intellectual Approach and Expressive Style
- Editor’s Personal Contacts with Dr. Mead
- Appendix: The Rationale and Future of Anticipatory Anthropology
- Acknowledgements
TWENTY-FIVE WRITINGS AND LECTURES BY MARGARET MEAD
1943: The Family in the Future
1945: Human Differences and World Order
1950: Unique Possibilities of the Melting Pot
1962: The Psychology of Warless Man
1963a: Beyond the Nuclear Family
1963b: Patterns of Worldwide Cultural Change in the 1960s
1966a: One World—But Which Language?
1966b: The University and Institutional Change
1967: Changing Cultural Patterns of Work and Leisure
1968a: New Year’s—A Universal Birthday
1968b: Alternatives to War
1968c: The Crucial Role of the Small City in Meeting the Urban Crisis
1968d: Statement [on Aging And Retirement]
1968e: Some Social Consequences of a Guaranteed Income
1969: Man On the Moon
1970a: Education for Humanity
1970b: Kalinga Prize Acceptance Speech
1971: A Note on Contributions of Anthropology to the Science of the Future
1973a: The Kind of City We Want
1973b: Prospects for World Harmony
1974a: Opening Address [to The Society for General Systems Research]
1974b: Changing Perspectives on Modernization
1974c: Ways to Deal with the Current Social Transformation
1975: Discussion [about How Anthropologists Can Perform Better in Applied Roles]
1977: Our Open-Ended Future
Index
Über den Autor
Margaret Mead served as Curator of Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History from 1925 to 1969. She began her career with a study of youth and adolescence in Samoan society, published as Coming of Age in Samoa (1928). She published prolifically, becoming a seminal figure in anthropology, and was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1979.
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