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Towards the Anthropology of the “Near” in the City: Places, Non-Places, Mobilities [K antropologii “blizkogo” v gorode: mesta, ne-mesta, mobil’nosti].
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Towards the Anthropology of the “Near” in the City: Places, Non-Places, Mobilities [K antropologii “blizkogo” v gorode: mesta, ne-mesta, mobil’nosti].
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S0869-54150000338-4-1
DOI
10.31857/S50000338-4-1
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Article
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Published
Authors
Andrey Kuznetsov 
ORCID: 0000-0003-3914-301X
Edition
Issue 6
Pages
5-13
Abstract
AbstractThis article is a theoretical introduction to the special section on the “Anthropology of Urban Spacesand Mobilities”. The contributors to the section share an interest in the anthropology ofcontemporary societies or anthropology of the “near” as contrasting with the anthropology of traditional societies or anthropology of the “far”. Marc Augé is one of the prominent proponents ofthe anthropology of the “near”, therefore his ideas are critically examined. First, his understanding of the differences between anthropologies of the “far” and the “near” are reviewed. Second, Augé’s central analytical distinction between anthropological place and non-place is analyzed in order to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of his approach. Inherent complexity and heuristic potentialare indicated. However, fruitful theoretical implications of Augé’s approach seem to elude the attention not only of its critics in the field of mobilities, but also of its author as well. The articleconcludes with the hope that professional anthropologists in Russia will follow the lead of the contributors to this section and turn their research attention to the study of urban spaces andmobilities as phenomena of the “near
Keywords
ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES, , URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY, NON-PLACES, MOBILITIES, MARC AUG6, SUPERMODERNITY
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