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El sentido de los otros. Actualidad de la antropología

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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 other.

125 pages, Paperback

First published January 12, 1994

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Marc Augé

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Marc Augé is a French anthropologist. His 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.

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Profile Image for David Pagnanelli.
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October 20, 2022
Avevo delle aspettative diverse: ho trovato molto più spazio alle tecniche di studio che risposte ad un titolo così importante. Gli studi sull’Africa sono stati molto più interessanti.
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February 19, 2015
La pregunta de los 64,000 para las ciencias sociales parece instituirse bajo alguna iteración de la forma "¿Quién es otro?". Para Marc Augé, el debate central es este, y aporta una cuestión sumamente interesante: en la época que habitamos (llamada por él sobremoderna), pareciera que la diferencia se nos vuelve intangible, imposible e impensable, y por tanto se vuelca toda la forma de estudio que ha caracterizado a un conjunto de disciplinas. Y no sólo la forma de estudio, sino fundamentalmente la concreción fenoménica.

Un texto denso y complejo, me costó bastante trabajo pero me resultó agradable ir captando el hilo a través de los numerosos ejemplo africanistas - y en ese sentido, del rescate de la diferencia - que se van encadenando a lo largo del trabajo. Por otra parte, me despertó (porque ya estaban ahí, pero bien dormidas) algunas inquietudes de corte psicoanalítico.
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