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Marc Augé was a French anthropologist.
A Frenchanthropologist, Augé belongs to the generation of scholars who were trained in the 1960s in Paris, for whom the likes of Louis Althusser.

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Marc Augé

(1935–)

A Frenchanthropologist, Augé belongs to the generation of scholars who were trained in the 1960s in Paris, for whom the likes of Louis Althusser, Michel de Certeau, Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault can be counted as teachers and crucial influences or antagonists as the case may be. A prolific, witty, and complex author, Augé considers himself to be an anthropologist; but his lifelong project has been one of reinventing what it means to do anthropology in the rapidly changing times he refers to as supermodernity (surmodernité).

Marc Augé's career can be divided into three stages, reflecting shifts in both his geographical focus and theoretical development: early (African), middle (European) and late (Global). These successive stages do not involve a broadening of interest or focus as such, but rather the development of a theoretical apparatus able to meet the demands of the growing conviction that the local can no longer be understood except as a part of the complicated global whole.

Augé's career began with a series of extended field trips to West Africa,

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Marc Augé, anthropologist of contemporary ‘non-places’

This article was originally published on 26 July 2023 by Le Monde.

Power, witchcraft, rituals, places, the city, the excesses of modernity, identity and oblivion, but also the Jardin du Luxembourg, tourism and the Paris métro – these were just some of the themes Marc Augé tackled as an anthropologist and writer, breaking down the barriers between the human sciences to better observe the contemporary world. In the words of the anthropologist Michel Agier, ‘he took ethnology out of the realm of detailed monographs and historicised the societies he studied. He also led the discipline into new fields: the city, new religions, theatres of war.’

Both Africanist and ethnologist of industrialised societies, president of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) from 1985 to 1995, an author of international stature whose influence was particularly felt in Italy, Marc Augé died in Paris on 24 July at the age of 87. He had been suffering for several years from Parkinson’s disease. He practised a free and fertile ant

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Tribute: Marc Augé (1935–2023)

Marc Augé, the French anthropologist who died last week at 87, used the tools of a discipline designed to study what it saw as primitive cultures to examine the contemporary globalized world. Though Augé did not write for an audience of architects, his ideas, in particular the concept he developed of the “non-place,” proved important for scholars and theorists of architecture seeking to understand the novel spatialities of modernity.

In his influential 1992 book Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity, Augé contrasted non-places—transitory spaces like airport lounges, train stations, and malls—against what he termed “anthropological places,” or places with history and symbolic meaning that establish their occupants’ position within the social and cultural world. “The space of non-place,” he wrote, “creates neither singular identity nor relations, only solitude and similitude.”

Augé developed his thought through careful study of the built environment, and, in the later decades of his career, often paired anthropological analysis with disc