ANTHROPOLOGIST

Marc Augé

1935 - 2023

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Marc Augé (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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marc Augé has received more than 184,776 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Marc Augé is the 20th most popular anthropologist (up from 27th in 2019), the 1,951st most popular biography from France (up from 2,213th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Anthropologist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Marc Augé ranks 20 out of 93. Before him are Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, Eugène Dubois, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Edward T. Hall, Mary Douglas, and Mary Leakey. After him are Victor Turner, Cheikh Anta Diop, Marshall Sahlins, A. L. Kroeber, Ann Dunham, and Jacques de Morgan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Marc Augé ranks 102. Before him are Agne Simonsson, Vladislav Volkov, Valeri Kubasov, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Julian Glover, and David Prowse. After him are Jack Charlton, Princess Elisabeth of Denmark, Mário Coluna, Terry Riley, Robert Silverberg, and Michael Walzer. Among people deceased in 2023, Marc Augé ranks 143. Before him are A. S. Byatt, Wayne Shorter, Concha Velasco, Martin Walser, Sante Gaiardoni, and Don Walsh. After him are Lance Reddick, Vakhtang Kikabidze, Burhan Sargun, Yuri Temirkanov, Anne Perry, and Américo Lopes.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marc Augé ranks 1,951 out of 6,770. Before him are François Pierre La Varenne (1618), Charles Fabry (1867), Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes (1721), François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy (1644), Marcel Schwob (1867), and Leslie Caron (1931). After him are Henry of Flanders (1174), François Magendie (1783), William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine (1024), Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve (1685), William Clito (1102), and Pierre Auguste Cot (1837).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In France

Among anthropologists born in France, Marc Augé ranks 2. Before him are Paul Broca (1824). After him are Jacques de Morgan (1857), 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 Marcellin Boule (1861).

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