Marc Augé

Marc Augé ( born September 2, 1935 in Poitiers, Vienne ) is a French ethnologist and anthropologist.

Life and work

Augé was director of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales ( EHESS ), the University of Social Sciences in Paris. In the 1970s and 1980s, he made several research trips to Africa, especially the Ivory Coast and Togo, as well as to Latin America.

Later, his thoughts focused increasingly on modern Western society. Among other things, his theory of non-places (non- lieux ) was known. Here he spoke spaces of the built environment, especially in urban areas, due to its function as a transit area and the lack of human interaction, its status as a place in the anthropological sense from.

His extensive work was only partially translated into the German language.

Writings (selection )

• Un Ethnologue dans le métro. Text you XXe siècle. Hachette, Paris, 1986, ISBN 2-01-011409-4. German Translation: An anthropologist in the metro. Edition Qumran, Frankfurt / M. 1988, ISBN 3-88655-232-2.

• German translation: Places and non-places. Preliminary to an ethnology of solitude. Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 1994, ISBN 3-10-000516-3.
• German translation: non-places. With an afterword to the new edition. 3rd Ed Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-60568-0.

• German translation: The spirit of paganism. Boer -Verlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-924963-08-8.

• German translation: Diary of a homeless man. Ethno fiction. CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63080-4 ( translated by Michael Bischoff ).

• German translation: The forms of forgetting. Publisher Matthes & Seitz, Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-88221-044-6 (translated by Till Bardoux ).