Name: No Fixed Abode: Ethnofiction (French List)
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Author: Augé, Marc ; Turner, Chris
ISBN: 9780857426345

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No Fixed Abode: Ethnofiction (French List)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Marc Augé

Translated by

Chris Turner

Publisher

Seagull Books London Ltd

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780857426345

Synopsis "No Fixed Abode: Ethnofiction (French List) "

In recent years, social workers have raised a new concern about the appearance of a new category among the working poor. Even employed, there are people so overburdened by the cost of living and so under compensated that they cannot afford a place to sleep. Contrary to popular opinion, according to the website for the Coalition for the Homeless, forty-four percent of the homeless in first world countries actually have jobs. In No Fixed Abode, Marc Aug 's pathbreaking ethnofiction--a fictional ethnography--a man named Henri narrates his strange existence in the margins of Paris. By day he walks the streets, lingers in conversation with the local shopkeepers, and sits writing in caf s, but at night he takes shelter in an abandoned house. From here, we see a progressive erosion of Henri's identity, a loss of bearings, and a slow degeneration of his ability to relate to others. But then he meets the artist Dominique, whose willingness to share her life with him raises questions about who he has become and about what a person needs in order to be a part of society. This is a book about how we live in geographical space and how work and patterns of domicile affect our status and our inner being. Despite the apparent simplicity of the fictional premise, Aug 's book asks serious questions about the nature of our culture.

Marc Augé

(Author)

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Renowned French anthropologist, coined the term "non-place" to refer to places of transience, interchangeable spaces where the human being is anonymous, such as means of transport, large hotel chains, supermarkets, and even refugee camps

He is the director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, of which he was president from 1985 to 1995. He has also been responsible and director of various research projects at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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