Marc Augé (born in 1935 with Poitiers) is a ethnologist French.

He is director of studies at the School of the High Studies in Social sciences (EHESS) with Paris. Research director with ORSTOM (current IRD) until in 1970, then, director of studies with the EHESS, it carried out many missions in Africa, mainly in Ivory Coast and with the Togo. Since the middle of the years 1980, it diversified its observation fields, accomplishing in particular several stays in Latin America and trying to observe realities of the contemporary world in its most immediate environment (Paris, France).

Publications

• Shore alladian , ORSTOM, 1969
• Theory of the capacities and ideology , Hermann, 1975
• Capacities of life, capacities of dead , Flammarion, 1977
• Symbol, function, history , Hatchet, 1979
• Genius of Paganism , Gallimard, 1982
• the crossing of Luxembourg , 1985
• an ethnologist in the subway , 1986

• Withdrawals of case, introduction to an anthropology of the surmodernity , the Threshold, 1992:

Marc Augé continues his anthropology of the daily newspaper by exploring the withdrawals of case, these spaces of anonymity which accommodate each day of the more individuals. The withdrawals of case, they are as well the installations necessary to the accelerated circulation of the people and the goods (fast tracks, exchangers, stations, airport) that means of transport themselves (cars, trains or planes). But also hotel large chains with the interchangeable rooms, supermarkets or, differently, the camps of prolonged transit where the refugees of planet are parked. The withdrawal of case is thus all the opposite of a residence, a residence, a place to the common direction of the term. Only, but similar to the others, the user of the withdrawal of case maintains with this one a contractual relation symbolized by the train ticket, the chart presented to toll… In these withdrawals of case, one conquers his anonymity only by providing the proof of his identity - passport, credit card… The ethnologist notices that one can cross with a crossroads whereas the exchanger prohibits any meeting. If the traveller strolls in way or is mislaid, the passenger who travels by the plane is determined by his destination. Today, the reference marks of the identity and the statute of the history change at the same time as the organization of terrestrial space.

• the direction of the others , Beech, 1994

• Fields and castles , 1992
• For an anthropology of the contemporary worlds , Sapwood, 1994
• Paris, the Thirties , Hazan, Paris, 1996
• the impossible voyage. Tourism and its images , Payot & Shores, Paris, 1997
• Fictions end of century , Beech, 2000
• the forms of the lapse of memory , Shores, Paris, 2001
• Newspaper of war , Galileo, 2003
• time ruins of it , Galileo, 2003
• For what do we live? , Beech, 2003

External bonds

• the ineffaceable border. An ethnologist on the traces of the Berlin Wall, Le Monde Diplomatic, August 2001

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