L’Ethnologie detournee

Carl Einstein, Michel Leiris et la revue Documents

by Sebastien Cote

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Extent: 304 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Literary Studies

Series: Perspectives comparatistes

Series volume number: 79

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(February 2019)

ISBN: 9782406073680

Price: $55.00

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This book analyzes the appropriations of ethnology in Carl Einstein’s and Michel Leiris’s contributions to the journal Documents (1929-1930). As the role occupied here by the “primitive Other” recalls the noble savage of the Enlightenment, studying its resurgence in interwar France appears necessary.


This book analyzes the appropriations of ethnology in Carl Einstein’s and Michel Leiris’s contributions to the journal Documents (1929-1930). As the role occupied here by the “primitive Other” recalls the noble savage of the Enlightenment, studying its resurgence in interwar France appears necessary.

  • By (author) Sebastien Cote