Michel Leiris

Michel Leiris was born in Paris on 20 April 1901. He joined the Surrealist group in 1924 and left it in 1929 to join Georges Bataille, and began a psychoanalysis the same year. In the early thirties he was secretary-archivist of the ethnographic mission that crossed Africa from Dakar to Djibouti, then became an ethnographer at the Musée de l'Homme, where he spent most of his career. He also wrote poems, essays and works of ethnography. He died in 1990.

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