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Tristes Tropiques begins with the line ‘ I hate travelling and explorers ’, yet during his life Claude Lévi-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 Tropiques is 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.
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Tristes Tropiques, Claude Lévi-Strauss, John Weightman, Doreen Weightman
- Language
- Released
- 1992
- Binding
- (Paperback),
- Book condition
- Good
- Price
- €3.29
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- Title
- Tristes Tropiques
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Released
- 1992
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 417
- ISBN10
- 0140165622
- ISBN13
- 9780140165623
- Series
- Categories
- Tags
- Travel, Philosophical Topics, France, Culture and Society, Ethnography, Native Americans, Indigenous Tribes, South America, Brazil, Ethnology, Civilization, Latin America, 19th-20th Century, Wilderness, Cultural Anthropology, Social Anthropology, South American Indians
- First published
- 1955
- Original title
- Tristes Tropiques
- Rating
- 4.2 out of 5
- Description
- Tristes Tropiques begins with the line ‘ I hate travelling and explorers ’, yet during his life Claude Lévi-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 Tropiques is 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.