General Editor's Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- SECTION ONE: THE FUTURE AS A NEW DIMENSION OF ANTHROPOLOGY -- The Contribution of Anthropology to the Science of the Future -- Futuristics and the Imaging Capacity of the West -- Toward Human Futuristics -- SECTION TWO: ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSIGHTS FOR SOCIAL POLICY: WESTERN VIEWS -- The Possible and the Desirable: Population and Environmental Problems -- The Prehistory of Homo sapiens: Touchstone for the Future -- Ecosystems and Economic Systems -- Futurism in Man: Humanism, Social Technology, and Survival -- SECTION THREE: ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSIGHTS FOR SOCIAL POLICY: THIRD WORLD VIEWS -- The Concept of Heterogeneity and Change Among the Mandenka -- Resistance to Early Western Education in Eastern Nigeria -- The Relevance of African Traditional Medicine in Modern Medical Training and Practice -- Managing the Ecosystem of World Nations -- Social Determinism and Social Change: An Analysis of Alternatives for the Future Development of Papua New Guinea -- Discussions: Chicago -- Discussions: Frascati -- SECTION FOUR: CONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE FUTURE IN VARIOUS CULTURES -- Past and Future Culture Change: A Quest for Variant Explanations -- Ideas Concerning Maya Concepts of the Future -- Traditional Greek Conceptions of the Future -- The Future in the Past: Toward a Utopian Syntax -- SECTION FIVE: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND CULTURAL TRENDS -- Fumbling Freely into the Future -- Familism and the Creation of Futures -- Cultural Heterogeneity in Social Systems: Its Policy Implications -- SECTION SIX: PERCEPTION, ACTION, RESEARCH PARADIGM, AND POLICY DESIGN -- Toward Polyocular Anthropology -- Symbiotization of Cultural Heterogeneity: Scientific, Epistemological, and Aesthetic Bases -- Ways of Perceiving Oneself in Urban Planning Interaction.

SECTION SEVEN: EDUCATION FOR THE FUTURE -- "The Anthropology of the Future" as an Academic Discipline -- Futurizing the Power Industry -- SECTION EIGHT: FUTURE CULTURAL ALTERNATIVES: IMAGINATIVE USE OF ANTHROPOLOGY -- A Future History -- Univaria -- A Socialist Alternative for the Future -- The State of Anthropology Today: A Comment -- APPENDIX: EXCERPTS FROM THE TRANSCRIPTION OF THE FIRST CULTURAL FUTURISTICS SYMPOSIUM, HELD AT THE AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION 69TH ANNUAL MEETING -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.