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Tous les chemins mènent à la rou(e)‑manie : Augustin l’Autostoppeur et l’anthropologue autodidacte

Title in English All roads lead to wheel-mania : Augustin the Hitchhiker and the self-taught anthropologist
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LAVIOLETTE Patrick

Year of publication 2025
Type Popularization text
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Social Studies

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Description Drawing on ethno-historical, literary and visual materials, this essay presents an experiment in autobiographical anthropology. The aim is to undertake a hermeneutic and phenomenological re-examination of cultures of mobility through the example of hitchhiking in Europe. To this end, I describe the relevance of intercultural, historical and contemporary interpretations of such an impromptu and interrupted form of spontaneous travel. And this, on both a poetic and political level, whether today, in the age of car-sharing, or in the era of hippies travelling the world, when there was no term to describe the Anthropocene.
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