A Sense for the Other: The Timeliness and Relevance of Anthropology

by Marc Augé

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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 L vi-Strauss.

For several years, the author has advocated an anthropology of "proximity" in place of...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0804730342

ISBN13:9780804730341

Release Date:February 1998

Publisher:Stanford University Press

Length:156 Pages

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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