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

by Marc Augé

Book Overview

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"