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Marc Auge
A provocative study of the 'non-space' which defines our age's love for excess of information and space
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As he leaves the cinema where he has just watched Casablanca, one of his favorite films, Julien is approached by a mysterious young woman, Claire. Unbeknownst to Julien, Claire has…
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Tourists climb the Eiffel Tower to see Paris. Parisians know that to really see the city you must descend into the metro. In this revelatory book, Marc Auge takes readers…
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Part memoir, part manifesto, this is a celebration of the bicycle by French anthropologist Marc Auge.
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Marc Aug was eleven or twelve years old when he first saw Casablanca. Made in 1942 but not released in France until 1947, the film had a profound effect on…
Marc Auge,Claudine Herzlich
Offering new ways of understanding the nature of disease, and exploring the idea that health and illness have a special interdependence, The Meaning of Illness shows the positive side of…
Anthropology is both outside of history and within it. Histories of anthropology tend to summarise particular authors’ intellectual differences; but, as Marc Auge argues in this book, first published in…
With an ethnologist’s understanding of construct and practice, Marc Auge proves age is unrelated to the development of consciousness, desire, and representations of the self. In bold, eye-opening strokes, he…
This approach to anthropology focuses on negotiating the social meanings used in making sense of the world, and on the processes of identification that create the difference between same and…
For Marc Auge, best-selling author of Non-Places, the prevailing idea of "the Future" rests on our present fears of the contemporary world. It is to the future that we look…
In recent years, social workers have raised concern about the appearance of a new category among the working poor. This book tells about how we live in geographical space and…
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Reveals what Anthropology is and what anthropologists do. This book explains the remains of traditional Anthropology. Describing the key ideas and methods which underpin the subject, from fieldwork through to…
Michel Leiris
Short fragments and essays that explore how a seemingly irrelevant aesthetic detail may cause the eruption of sublimity within the mundane.
Marc Sprick
Examensarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Sport - Sportpadagogik, Didaktik, Note: 1,7, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit lasst sich in drei grosse Kapitel unterteilen. Im ersten Kapitel, den…
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Die vorliegende Arbeit lasst sich in drei grosse Kapitel unterteilen. Im ersten Kapitel, den theoretischen Grundlagen, wird die Sportart Tee-Ball erlautert. Des Weiteren wird auf das Thema Sensomotorik, speziell die…
On the East/West crosscurrents of globalization in art
Focusing on South, Central and East Asia, this series of essays examines how art has become globalized and a force of globalization…
