On Ethnographic Surrealism
- 1 April 1981
- journal article
- western understanding-of-other-cultures
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Comparative Studies in Society and History
- Vol. 23 (4) , 539-564
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0010417500013554
Abstract
André Breton often insisted that surrealism was not a body of doctrines, or a definable idea, but an activity. The present essay is an exploration of ethnographic activity, set, as it must always be, in specific cultural and historical circumstances. I will be concentrating on ethnography and surrealism in France between the two world wars. To discuss these activities together—at times, indeed, to permit them to merge—is to question a number of common distinctions and unities.Keywords
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