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Record Number: 10021


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Our own attitude and our feeling of amateur enterprise have been summed up by Professor Bronislaw Malinowski, who in our first year's "Report" (Lindsay Drummond, 1938) describes how he first met one of us reading a paper to the Institute of Sociology.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1938 and 31 Dec 1938

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

other location: Institute of Sociology

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

unknown

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

academic

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

those present at the Institute of Sociology


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Bronislaw Malinowski?

Title:

[unknown]

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Social Science

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Sheet, Academic paper

Publication Details

read to the Institute of Sociology

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

10021

Source - Manuscript:

Other

Author:

'The Pub and the People: A Worktown Study by Mass-Observation' (London, 1943), p. 329, in Mass Observation Online (access to this site is restricted to purchasing institutions, please see http://www.amdigital.co.uk/collections/Mass-Observation-Online for details). http://www.massobservation.amdigital.co.uk,

Citation:

'The Pub and the People: A Worktown Study by Mass-Observation' (London, 1943), p. 329, in Mass Observation Online (access to this site is restricted to purchasing institutions, please see http://www.amdigital.co.uk/collections/Mass-Observation-Online for details). http://www.massobservation.amdigital.co.uk, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=10021, accessed: 20 April 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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