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The Anthropological Circle: Symbol, Function, History (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 37) by Marc Augé (Auge), Martin Thom is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
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Anthropology is both outside of history and within it. Histories of anthropology tend to summarise particular authors' intellectual differences; but, as Marc Augé argues in this book, first published in English in 1982, these differences may in fact be intrinsically derived from intellectual divisions within anthropology as obvious as they are irreconcilable. Augé identifies, in contemporary debates in French anthropology, the paths that perhaps allow us to transcend these oppositions. On doing
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- Author
- Marc Augé (Auge), Martin Thom
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 1982
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780521285483
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Social Science, Philosophy
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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