The Emerging Global Crisis and Development Anthropology: Can We Have an Impact?
Author(s)
Scudder, Thayer
Abstract
Scenarios for the 21st century range from technology and business-oriented visions of a global boom to more pessimistic ones based on increasing environmental degradation, poverty with a rising gap between rich and poor, and societal breakdown. Drawing on his own views and those of 53 other anthropologists, the author discusses the likelihood of the more pessimistic vision prevailing if present trends continue.
