An Anthropology for Contemporaneous Worlds (Mestizo Spaces / Espaces Metisses)

Augé, Marc

ISBN 10: 0804734755 / ISBN 13: 9780804734752

Editore: Stanford University Press (edition ), 1999

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• Titolo: An Anthropology for Contemporaneous Worlds (Mestizo Spaces / Espaces Metisses)
• Editore: Stanford University Press (edition )
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0804734755
• ISBN 13: 9780804734752
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Good

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Riassunto

Under what conditions is anthropology possible today, when a crisis of social meaning - a crisis that makes it more difficult to conceive and manage our relation to the other - makes the need for anthropology appear more clearly than ever before? This book sets forth at least the beginning of an answer to this question.
Positioned in opposition not only to political theories of universalization and homogenization more or less tied to the theme of "the end of history," but also to "postmodernist" versions of anthropological theories of multiplicity and relativism, the author argues that social anthropology, through its self-critical tradition, is fully capable of adapting to the accelerated change that is continuously recomposing relations between universalism and particularism. It is for social anthropology to select, analyze, and understand the new modes of sociality and the new spaces in which (not without calamities and contradictions) these utterly new recompositions, a major aspect of our contemporary world, manifest themselves.

Informazioni sugli autori

Marc Auge is President of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.

Marc Augé is President of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Among his dozen books isA Sense for the Other: The Timeliness and Relevance of Anthropology (Stanford, 1998).