![]() ![]() These documents (dutifully posted off to Mass- Observation headquarters) - pare now included in a massive archive held by the University of Sussex. Part of the chosen technique was to test volunteers around the country to keep private diaries of their daily doings, with the promise that their identities would protected. The aim was to achieve an 'anthropology of ourselves' organising a close study of everyday people leading regular lives. This led to the creation of Mass- Observation, very much a typical product of the period. ![]() ![]() After spending some time studying cannibals in the South Pacific, the anthropologist Tom Harrisson came home in 1936 and decided that it would be just as interesting to subject the ordinary people of this country to similar scientific scrutiny. ![]()
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