Author: Augé, Marc
Title: An Anthropology for Contemporaneous Worlds
Description: Stanford [CA], Stanford University Press, 1999. orig. wrappers. 22x13cm, xii, 144 pp. PAPERBACK.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ 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. The volume's title combines a singular noun,anthropology, with a plural one, contemporaneous worlds. It aims to register the double movement of universalization and particularization that is simultaneously affecting the entire planet. Social anthropology has always taken into account the context of the groups and phenomena it studied. Today, while multiplicity is being maintained or, more precisely, renewed, that context has become, in all cases, planetary" - Publisher's description.

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