El Arxiu d'Etnografia i Folklore de Catalunya o la transformación de la investigación etnográfica en Cataluña a principios de siglo

Abstract

Arxiu d'Etnografia i Folklore de Catalunya was the first arrempt to institutionalise ethnographic research in Catalonia, becoming in the process one of the first to do so in Spain. Linked with Catalonian Noucentisme and deeply influenced by Euro pean ethnological theory of the time (Levy-Bruhl, W. Schmidt, Marett et al ), it represented a radical transformation from all that had been done up to then in the fields of ethnography and folklore in Catalonia. This transformation resulted in the theory of "Psychoethnography" created by the director and founder of the institution, Tomas Carreras i Artau.