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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. |
