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This Volume Is An Experiment: An Enquiry Into The Possibilities And Potentialities Of A Prospective Anthropology Of Utopia. With Different Ethnographic Contributions Studying ±empirical Utopias? Across The World (from Ecotopias To Religious Havens, Transnational Policies, Retirement Homes And Community Agriculture), It Looks Beyond The Commonsense Understanding Of Utopia As A Desire, An Expectation, A Form Of Imagination Stemming From Western Political Thought. In The Process, The Volume Explores The Dynamic Dialectic Between Human Imagination And Concrete Action. Introduction: Utopian Encounters: Anthropologies Of Empirical Utopias / Maïté Maskens And Ruy Blanes -- Valuing An Old-age Trope For An Old-ae Home: Ethnographic Encounters With Utopian Configurations / Alicia Sliwinksi -- Past Utopias: Religious And Political Temporalities In Contemporary Angola / Ruy Llera Blanes -- 'imagine A World Without Tobacco: Utopian Visions And Collaborative Research In Public Health / Andrew Russell -- Neo-rural Communities As Heterotopias / Madeleine Sallustio -- Could This Be The End Of The World As We Know It?: Community-supported Agriculture In Croatia And The Buildin Of Ecotopia / Olga Orlić -- The Dominance Of One And Its Perils: Charismatic Leadership And Branch Structures In Utopian Communes / Christoph Brumann -- Afterword / Tobias Kelly -- Notes On Contributors -- Index. Edited By Maïté Maskens And Ruy Blanes. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.