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The War of Dreams: Exercises in Ethno-Fiction
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Hardcover
from Pluto Pr (July 1, 1999)
9780745313894 | details & prices | 136 pages | 5.50 × 8.75 × 0.50 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $95.00
Paperback
from Pluto Pr (September 1, 1999)
9780745313849 | details & prices | 5.75 × 8.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.25 lbs | List price $26.00
About: 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).
About: 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).