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A Sense for the Other

The Timeliness and Relevance of Anthropology
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If the end of exoticism is one of the characteristics of our time, and if classical anthropology based its study of alterity on this exotic distance from the other, is anthropology still possible, and if so, to what end? The author uses these questions as a point of departure for a probing interrogation of ethnological practice, starting with LZvi-Strauss. For several years, the author has advocated an anthropology of proximity in place of the usual anthropology of distance. He has studied such emblematic places of Western modernity as the Parisian Metro, or such emblematic non-places as airports or freeways, treating as valid anthropological objects phenomena that others might judge less pure or significant than systems of filiation or matrimonial alliance. The proper place of the ethnographer, he argues, is sufficiently distanced to comprehend a system as a system, yet participatory enough to live it as an individual. How can one best arrive at such a place?
Marc Auge is President of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He is the author of a dozen books, several of which have been translated into English.
Preface to the English edition An introductory word 1. Who is the other? 2. Others and their meaning 3. The proximal other, or the other next door 4. The others' norm 5. Knowledge and recognition anthropology's meaning and end 6. The conquest of space Conclusion: a changed world, a changed object Notes Complementary sources.
"Like the work of anthropology itself, [An Antyhropology for Contemporaneous Worlds] is difficult but well worth the effort." - Anthropology of Work Review
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