Pour une anthropologie globale du luxe... et de la mode. Entretien avec Marc Abélès

In this interview of May 2017, the anthropologist of globalization, Marc Abélès gives his thoughts on luxury, an object of research that he is exploring for several years but which remains little studied by the social sciences. From his observations in China, in global places of circulation of luxur...

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Main Author: Marc Abélès
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre 2018-11-01
Series:Terrains/Théories
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/teth/1405
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description In this interview of May 2017, the anthropologist of globalization, Marc Abélès gives his thoughts on luxury, an object of research that he is exploring for several years but which remains little studied by the social sciences. From his observations in China, in global places of circulation of luxury goods (airports, shopping malls) or of contemporary art (galleries, fairs), he defines what constitutes, for him, a global anthropology of luxury . By highlighting the paradoxical aspects of this one, by giving to see its plurality, by questioning its materiality and its “traditionality”, by evoking the mechanisms of scarcity and desire which underlie it, by observing its places, its actors, its goods and his representations, Marc Abélès, reveals the true wealth of luxury by giving it a power to understand globalization. It shows that far from being fixed, luxury is constantly reconfigured and gives us to see differently the world we live in, just as fashion is able to do. Interview by Anne Monjaret et Kristell Blache-Comte.
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Pour une anthropologie globale du luxe... et de la mode. Entretien avec Marc Abélès
Terrains/Théories
luxury
globalization
anthropology
fashion
title Pour une anthropologie globale du luxe... et de la mode. Entretien avec Marc Abélès
title_full Pour une anthropologie globale du luxe... et de la mode. Entretien avec Marc Abélès
title_fullStr Pour une anthropologie globale du luxe... et de la mode. Entretien avec Marc Abélès
title_full_unstemmed Pour une anthropologie globale du luxe... et de la mode. Entretien avec Marc Abélès
title_short Pour une anthropologie globale du luxe... et de la mode. Entretien avec Marc Abélès
title_sort pour une anthropologie globale du luxe et de la mode entretien avec marc abeles
topic luxury
globalization
anthropology
fashion
url http://journals.openedition.org/teth/1405
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