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Terms and conditions applyIn the Metro
Marc Augé and Tom Conley
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Format: Book
Pages: 224
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Date Published: Mar 2003
Stock Code: 30242
Binding: Paperback
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In this book, Marc Aug takes readers below Paris in a work that is both an ethnography of the city and a personal narrative. Guiding us through history, memory, and physical space, Aug juxtaposes the romance of the metro with the reality of multiethnic urban France. His work is part autobiography, with impressions from a lifetime riding the trains; part meditation on self and memory reflected in the people and places underneath Paris; part analysis of a place where the third world and the first world meet, where remnants of cultures move and press together; and part a reflection on anthropology in an era of globalization and urban development.
Although he is a pillar of French thought, 'In the Metro' is Aug'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 Lvi-Strauss and Michel de Certeau, but also engaged in current theoretical debates in literary and cultural studies. In Aug'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, Aug reveals a passion for his milieu, seeing the metro as a place rich with history and literature-an eclectic egalitarian society.
Although he is a pillar of French thought, 'In the Metro' is Aug'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 Lvi-Strauss and Michel de Certeau, but also engaged in current theoretical debates in literary and cultural studies. In Aug'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, Aug reveals a passion for his milieu, seeing the metro as a place rich with history and literature-an eclectic egalitarian society.
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