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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 172,375 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Marc Augé is the 28th most popular anthropologist (down from 25th in 2019), the 2,220th most popular biography from France (down from 2,105th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Marc Augé ranks 28 out of 69Before him are Richard Leakey, Marvin Harris, Leslie White, Wilhelm Schmidt, Cheikh Anta Diop, and Raymond Dart. After him are Marshall Sahlins, Jacques de Morgan, Ann Dunham, Pierre Clastres, Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, and Franco Basaglia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Marc Augé ranks 116Before him are Paula Rego, Nikos Sampson, Wang Hongwen, Jerry Fodor, Mario Camus, and Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr. After him are Donald P. Bellisario, Helmut Lachenmann, Diane Ladd, Michael Walzer, Ján Popluhár, and Annie Proulx. Among people deceased in 2023, Marc Augé ranks 99Before him are Chaim Topol, Lisa Marie Presley, Piper Laurie, Ken Mattingly, Oleg Protopopov, and Glenda Jackson. After him are Philippe Sollers, Vakhtang Kikabidze, Treat Williams, Daisaku Ikeda, Ahmed Qurei, and Antonella Lualdi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marc Augé ranks 2,220 out of 6,011Before him are Claude Berri (1934), Léon Cogniet (1794), Bertrand de Jouvenel (1903), Constance, Duchess of Brittany (1161), Anselme Payen (1795), and Bernard of Menthon (923). After him are Émile Boutroux (1845), Philippe Sollers (1936), Matthias of Arras (1290), Thomas Bérard (1300), Ginette Neveu (1919), and Tino Rossi (1907).

Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In France

Among anthropologists born in France, Marc Augé ranks 2Before him are Paul Broca (1824). After him are Jacques de Morgan (1857), Pierre Clastres (1934), Marcel Griaule (1898), Georges Vacher de Lapouge (1854), Maurice Godelier (1934), Alfred Sauvy (1898), Georges Balandier (1920), Marcellin Boule (1861), and Françoise Héritier (1933).