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Tristes Tropiques

Tristes Tropiques

by Claude Levi-Strauss, John Weightman, Doreen Weightman
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Tristes Tropiquesbegins with the line 'I hate travelling and explorers', yet during his life Claude Levi-Strauss travelled from wartime France to the Amazon basin and the dense upland jungles of Brazil, where he found 'human society reduced to its most basic expression'. His account of the people he encountered changed the field of anthropology, transforming Western notions of 'primitive' man. Tristes Tropiquesis a major work of art as well as of scholarship. It is a memoir of exquisite beauty and a masterpiece of travel writing: funny, discursive, movingly detailing personal and cultural loss, and brilliantly connecting disparate fields of thought. Few books have had as powerful and broad an impact.

Book Details

ISBN13 9780140165623
ISBN10 0140165622
Series/Work OL8983695W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher Penguin Books
Pages 425
Language ENG
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At January 30, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

Anthropology Brazil, description and travel Conseil national de la Résistance (France) Description and travel Descriptions et voyages Ethnologie History Indians of South America Indiens d'Amérique Indigenous peoples Religion primitive Social life and customs Société primitive Strukturalismus Travel Underground movements World War, 1939-1945

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