Race and Culture

by Michel Leiris

The Race Question in Modern Science [series]: Race and Culture by Michel Leiris, in Charge of Research at the National Scientific Research Center and Staff Member of the Musée de I'Homme, Paris.

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1951

About the author

Born in Paris in 1901, Michel Leiris was a French surrealist writer and ethnographer. In the 1920s he became a member of the surrealist movement and contributed to La révolution surréaliste. In those years, he wrote a surrealist novel: Aurora.

After his exit from the surrealist group, he teamed up with Georges Bataille in the magazine Documents.