Tristes Tropiques
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‘One of the great books of our century . . . It speaks with a human voice’ Susan SontagTristes 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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Weight 0.332 kg
Dimensions 2.5 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Paperback
Language

Pages

448
Publisher

Year Published

2011-9-1
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0141197544
About The Author

Claude Levi-Strauss was born in 1908 and died in 2009. He is the founder of modern anthropology and taught in France, Brazil and at the New School in New York before being appointed to the Chair of Social Anthropology at the College de France in 1959. His other boks include Structural Anthropology, Totemism and The Savage Mind.

A magical masterpiece
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One of the great books of our century … It speaks with a human voice
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