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Although he is a pillar of French thought, In the Metro is Auge's first major critical and creative work translated into English. It shows him to be firmly rooted in a tradition of literary ethnography that reaches back to Claude Levi-Strauss and Michel de Certeau, but also engaged in current theoretical debates in literary and cultural studies. In Auge's idiosyncratic and innovative approach, the act of observing the quotidian is elevated to an art. The writer and his history become part of the field he observes, and anthropology interacts with a site -- urban life -- usually reserved for sociology and cultural studies. Throughout, Auge reveals a passion for his milieu, seeing the metro as a place rich with history and literature -- an eclectic egalitarian society.
Author: Marc Auge
ISBN-10: 0816634378
ISBN-13: 9780816634378
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Language: English
Published: 09/06/2002
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.00w x 0.45d
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