Louise Tythacott is a curator at Liverpool Museum. She was formerly a guide at Brighton Pavilion and a postgraduate researcher at Hong Kong University

'Surrealism and the Exotic is a carefully researched, well-written, and often entertaining book that explores the central paradox of the Surrealists ... ' – The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

• Acknowledgments. Introduction: Surrealism and ethnologie: subversive ideologies Part 1 - Cults 1. The culture of Surrealism Part 2 - The Primitive: ideologies and objects 2. The primitive:fantasy, theory, Surrealist ideology 3. The primitive object Part 3 - Voyages 4. Africanismes 5. Océanie: re-mapping the world 6. North America: the search for the familiar on unfamiliar terrain 7. Mexico and the Caribbean: 'Magic as part of everyday life' Part 4 - Anthropologies 8. Michel Leiris - an anthropology of the self 9. Georges Bataille - an anthropology of otherness Afterword Bibliography Index

Louise Tythacott is a curator at Liverpool Museum. She was formerly a guide at Brighton Pavilion and a postgraduate researcher at Hong Kong University

'Surrealism and the Exotic is a carefully researched, well-written, and often entertaining book that explores the central paradox of the Surrealists ... ' – The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

• Acknowledgments. Introduction: Surrealism and ethnologie: subversive ideologies Part 1 - Cults 1. The culture of Surrealism Part 2 - The Primitive: ideologies and objects 2. The primitive:fantasy, theory, Surrealist ideology 3. The primitive object Part 3 - Voyages 4. Africanismes 5. Océanie: re-mapping the world 6. North America: the search for the familiar on unfamiliar terrain 7. Mexico and the Caribbean: 'Magic as part of everyday life' Part 4 - Anthropologies 8. Michel Leiris - an anthropology of the self 9. Georges Bataille - an anthropology of otherness Afterword Bibliography Index

Louise Tythacott is a curator at Liverpool Museum. She was formerly a guide at Brighton Pavilion and a postgraduate researcher at Hong Kong University

'Surrealism and the Exotic is a carefully researched, well-written, and often entertaining book that explores the central paradox of the Surrealists ... ' – The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

• Acknowledgments. Introduction: Surrealism and ethnologie: subversive ideologies Part 1 - Cults 1. The culture of Surrealism Part 2 - The Primitive: ideologies and objects 2. The primitive:fantasy, theory, Surrealist ideology 3. The primitive object Part 3 - Voyages 4. Africanismes 5. Océanie: re-mapping the world 6. North America: the search for the familiar on unfamiliar terrain 7. Mexico and the Caribbean: 'Magic as part of everyday life' Part 4 - Anthropologies 8. Michel Leiris - an anthropology of the self 9. Georges Bataille - an anthropology of otherness Afterword Bibliography Index