ANTHROPOLOGIST

Marc Augé

1935 - 2023

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Marc Augé (French: [oʒe]; 2 September 1935 – 24 July 2023) was a French anthropologist. In an essay and book of the same title, Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (1995), Augé coined the phrase "non-place" to refer to spaces where concerns of relations, history, and identity are erased. Examples of a non-place would be a motorway, a hotel room, an airport or a supermarket. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marc Augé is the 30th most popular anthropologist (down from 20th in 2019), the 2,336th most popular biography from France (down from 1,950th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Marc Augé ranks 30 out of 93. Before him are Raymond Dart, Andrey Korotayev, Edward T. Hall, Jacques de Morgan, Ann Dunham, and Marshall Sahlins. After him are Fredrik Barth, Richard Leakey, Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Franco Basaglia, and Pierre Clastres.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Marc Augé ranks 131. Before him are Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Orlando Peçanha, Lyudmila Chernykh, Yola Ramírez, Franco Citti, and Brian Clough. After him are Sergei Khrushchev, Ken Kercheval, Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, Djamila Bouhired, Chaim Topol, and Jerry Fodor. Among people deceased in 2023, Marc Augé ranks 127. Before him are Gaston Glock, Kevin Mitnick, Thomas Williams, Martin Davis, Anne Perry, and Don Walsh. After him are Jerry Springer, Vakhtang Kikabidze, Ruud Geels, Arnaldo Forlani, Chaim Topol, and Hélène Carrère d'Encausse.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marc Augé ranks 2,336 out of 6,770. Before him are Jacques Lemercier (1585), Jacques Deray (1929), Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (1725), Quatremère de Quincy (1755), Eugène Fromentin (1820), and Jan Asselijn (1610). After him are Octave Lapize (1887), Jean-Jacques Beineix (1946), Rudi Garcia (1964), Louis Delluc (1890), Louis Jouvet (1887), and Joan of Valois, Countess of Hainaut (1294).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In France

Among anthropologists born in France, Marc Augé ranks 3. Before him are Paul Broca (1824), and Jacques de Morgan (1857). After him are Pierre Clastres (1934), Marcel Griaule (1898), Georges Vacher de Lapouge (1854), Alfred Sauvy (1898), Maurice Godelier (1934), Georges Balandier (1920), Philippe Descola (1949), Yves Coppens (1934), and Françoise Héritier (1933).

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