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Book SynopsisWith an ethnologist's understanding of construct and practice, Marc Auge proves age is unrelated to the development of consciousness, desire, and representations of the self. In bold, eye-opening strokes, he isolates age as a physical marker and casts one's youthful approach to the world as the true measure of life's value.
Trade ReviewThis book is a delight to read, a real joy that has its reader looking at the aging process anew and laughing (or at least chuckling) throughout. Auge's insight on aging is edifying, even uplifting, and makes us reconsider the otherwise bleak pronouncement 'everyone dies young' in a new, more hopeful light. -- Brian J. Reilly, Fordham University Auge looks at how people - himself included - confront their age at different moments in their lives; what it means to 'assume' one's age and how events mark our lives. There are, in our time, no writers who possess similar ease and command in turning autobiography into anthropology. -- Tom Conley, Harvard University
Table of ContentsThe Wisdom of the Cat As Age Approaches How Old Are You? Autobiography and Ethnology of Self Class Images d'Epinal Looking Your Age The Age of Things and the Age of Others Aging Without Age Nostalgia Everyone Dies Young Notes Index
