The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the FutureBorn 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. |
Contents
The Family in the Future | 35 |
Human Differences and World Order | 55 |
Unique Possibilities of the Melting Pot | 65 |
The Psychology of Warless Man | 75 |
Beyond the Nuclear Family | 85 |
Patterns of Worldwide Cultural Change | 91 |
One WorldBut Which Language? | 111 |
The University and Institutional Change | 119 |
Man On the Moon | 247 |
Education for Humanity | 253 |
Kalinga Prize Acceptance Speech | 263 |
A Note on Contributions of Anthropology | 271 |
The Kind of City We Want | 277 |
Prospects for World Harmony | 285 |
Opening Address to The Society | 291 |
Changing Perspectives on Modernization | 299 |
Changing Cultural Patterns of Work | 131 |
New YearsA Universal Birthday | 163 |
Alternatives to War | 169 |
The Crucial Role of the Small City | 185 |
Statement on Aging And Retirement | 209 |
Some Social Consequences of | 227 |
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