An edition of Tristes tropiques (1955)

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An edition of Tristes tropiques (1955)

Tristes tropiques

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Tristes Tropiques was an immensely popular bestseller when it was first published in France in 1955.

Claude Levi-Strauss's groundbreaking study of the societies of a number of Amazonian peoples is a cornerstone of structural anthropology and an exploration by the author of his own intellectual roots as a professor of philosophy in Brazil before the Second World War, as a Jewish exile from Nazi-occupied Europe, and later as a world-renowned academic (he taught at New York's New School for Social Research and was French cultural attache to the United States). Levi-Strauss's central journey leads from the Amazon basin through the dense upland jungles of Brazil.

There, among the Amerindian tribes - the Caduveo, Bororo, Nambikwara, and Tupi-Kawahib - he found "a human society reduced to its most basic expression." Levi-Strauss's discussion of his fieldwork in Tristes Tropiques endures as a milestone of anthropology, but the book is also, in its brilliant diversions on other, more familiar cultures, a great work of literature, a vivid travelogue, and an engaging memoir - a demonstration of the marvelous mental agility of one of the century's most important thinkers.

Presented here is the translation by John and Doreen Weightman of the complete text of the revised French edition of 1968, together with the original photographs and illustrations.

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Publisher
Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
425

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Cover of: Tristes tropiques
Tristes tropiques
1992, Penguin Books
in English
Cover of: Tristes tropiques.
Tristes tropiques.
1974, Atheneum
in English - [1st American ed.]
Cover of: Tristes tropiques
Tristes tropiques
1974, Atheneum
in English
Cover of: Tristes tropiques.
Tristes tropiques.
1961, Criterion Books
in English - [1st American ed.]
Cover of: Tristes tropiques
Tristes tropiques
1955, Librarie Plon
in French

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New York, N.Y., U.S.A

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
981/.00498
Library of Congress
F2520 .L4813 1992

The Physical Object

Pagination
425 p. :
Number of pages
425

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1563014M
Internet Archive
tristestropiques00levi_841
ISBN 10
0140165622
LCCN
91044515
OCLC/WorldCat
24953768
Library Thing
109363
Goodreads
283901

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