Preface Introduction: Contemporary Futures ( Sandra Wallman) Part One: Perspectives on Industrial Society
1. The Death of the Future David Lowenthal
2. Trapped in the Present: the past, present and future of a group of old people in East London. Guro Huby
3. Posterity and Paradox: some uses of time capsules Brian Durrans
4. On Predicting the Future: parish rituals and patronage in Malta Jeremy Boessevain Part Two: Perspectives on Non-Industrial Society
5. Lines, Cycles, and Transformations: temporal perspectives on Inuit action Jean L. Briggs
6. Going There and Getting There: the future as a legitimating charter for life in the present C. Bawa Yamba
7. Time past, Time Present, Time Future: contrasting temporal values in two southeast Asian societies Signe Howell
8. Saving the Rain Forest? contested futures in conservation Paul Richards Part Three: Perspectives on the Future of Anthropology
9. Sustainable Anthropology: ecology and anthropology in the future Peter Harries-Jones
10. Reproducing Anthropology Marilyn Strathern
11. The Marabar Caves, 1920-2020 Robert Paine
12. A Future for Social Anthropology? Raymond Firth Index Notes on contributors.