Como habitualmente, a documentação e as referências de apoio relativas ao tema foram enviadas directamente aos alunos antes e depois da aula.

Como habitualmente, a documentação e as referências de apoio relativas ao tema foram enviadas directamente aos alunos antes e depois da aula.

After that, we started our discussion on Marc Augé's "Non-places." We focused on the prologue, conceived as a highly relatable narrativization of what it means to be immersed in a non-place, and we talked about the differentiation made by Augé between an anthropology of the near and an anthropology of the elsewhere. As explained in the text, an anthropology of the near, centered on Western contemporaneity, entails the redefinition of the object of anthropology itself, more than its methodology. This led to a comparison between Augé's approach and the work of structuralist/poststructuralist thinkers. We debated over the foreseeable obstacles and complexity of analyzing the surrounding cultural context compared to studying societies in which the observer is an outsider (this particular point allowed us to compare Augé's work to Lévi-Strauss' and Geertz', for instance).