The ability to look ahead and to treat abstractions as serious business is a skill we all need to cultivate. So states the author of Looking Down the Road, a compelling short work involving the grand, if frustrating, human preoccupation with prediction. Raybeck supplies readers with some of the tools and ideas they will need as they attempt to forecast developments that are apt to characterize future society. Looking Down the Road reflects the author's anthropological training as it seeks to elucidate some of the processes and pressures that create social and cultural change.
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Also by Douglas Raybeck and available from Waveland Press: Mad Dogs, Englishmen, and the Errant Anthropologist: Fieldwork in Malaysia (ISBN 0881339067).
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"The book . . . hopes to make social science relevant to undergraduate students by demonstrating how it can anticipate future problems. His analyses . . . are clear and well put together, and indeed show that simple tools can help link large amounts of usually unmanageable data in very clear ways." -- The Australian Journal of Anthropology (Vol. 13, No. 1)
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