Product Description: An ever-increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports and hotels, on motorways or in front of TVs, computers and cash machines. This invasion of the world by what Marc Augé calls ‘non-space’ results in a profound alteration of awareness: something we perceive, but only in a partial and incoherent manner...read more

Anthropology is changing. Traditionally seen as the comparative study of cultural diversity, Anthropology now faces an increasingly globalised world, a world in which societies are not discrete or unique but are all, to some degree, connected. The role of the anthropologist is now less the comparative study of specific cultures than the study of the flow of goods, persons and ideas in the contemporary world. The World of the Anthropologist is a guide to this changing world, revealing what Anthropology is today and what anthropologists do now. This book explains what remains of a traditional Anthropology - such as the anthropological construction of kinship, politics, religion and economics as well as the continuing centrality of fieldwork -- and also explores the newer territory which Anthropology is studying, such as performance, science, sexuality, media, ethics, and visual culture. Clearly explaining the key ideas and methods which underpin the subject -- from fieldwork through to the construction of knowledge itself - The World of the Anthropologist offers a fascinating insight into and overview of Anthropology today.

Product Description: In what he characterizes as a small treatise on time, Aug (L' cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) argues that oblivion is necessary both to society and to the individual, because people must know how to forget in order to taste the full flavor of the present, of the moment, and of the expectation...read more

Product Description: La pregunta de por qué vivimos sólo la planteamos nosotros, los occidentales, porque en nuestras sociedades, después del final de las ideologías, se ha extendido un sentimiento de vacío y la necesidad de dar un sentido a la propia vida...read more

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Product Description: En nuestras sociedades se ha instaurado un nuevo reparto entre lo real y la ficción que afecta la vida social hasta el punto de hacernos incluso dudar de la realidad. ¿Qué podemos esperar y qué debemos temer de este enorme desorden? A partir de la observación cotidiana del espectáculo del mundo y de sí mismo, Marc Augé ana...read more

Product Description: Diplomatique In this elegantly argued and compelling study, French anthropologist Marc Augé continues his critical exploration of contemporary modernity with an examination of the role of dreams, myth and fiction in the age of satellite TV and the Internet - a world in which information overload threatens to colonise us all, and to destroy the very real distinctions between fact (the real) and fiction (those invented ways in which we have, over the years and in very different communities, made sense of our collective identity in the face of otherness)...read more

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Product Description: First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.