Article ID: CBB000070634

Brief encounter: The meeting, in Mass-Observation, of British surrealism and popular anthropology (1995)

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Description “Much of the programme of today's literary postmodernists is not new, but was prefigured in the 1930s in the early work of Mass-Observation. One central aim of this organization, run by a group of British surrealists and a popularizing anthropologist, was the production of ethnography of the people by the people for the people. Though it won great public interest, the work of Mass-Observation was not on the whole accepted by anthropologists of the day. This article...illuminates the debate on the possible relations of surrealism and ethnography, and discusses the nature of institutional constraint on the intellectual development of the discipline.”


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Authors & Contributors
Van Keuren, David K.
Stocking, George W., Jr.
Redman, Samuel J.
Urry, James
Taylor, Jennie
Schrader, Wolfgang H.
Concepts
Anthropology
Social sciences
Museums
Popular culture
Big data
Unconscious (psychology)
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
18th century
Places
British Isles
United States
Great Britain
Institutions
Mass-Observation
Royal Anthropological Institute
Anthropological Society of London
Smithsonian Institution
British Association for the Advancement of Science
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