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.

  • By (author) Sebastien Cote