Marc Augé
Marc Augé | |
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Marc Augé in 2010 | |
| Director of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences | |
| In office 1985–1995 | |
| Preceded by | François Furet |
| Succeeded by | Jacques Revel |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 September 1935 Poitiers, France |
| Died | 24 July 2023 (aged 87) Paris, France |
| Education | Lycée Montaigne Lycée Louis-le-Grand |
| Alma mater | École normale supérieure |
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.