Tristes Tropiques Levi-Strauss Claude
Tristes Tropiques Levi-Strauss Claude "Tristes Tropiques" begins with the line 'I hate travelling and explorers', yet during his life Claude Levi-Strauss travelled from wartime France to the Amazon…
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Tristes Tropiques Levi-Strauss Claude
"Tristes Tropiques" begins 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'. "Tristes Tropiques" is a major work of art as well as of scholarship. His account of the people he encountered changed the field of anthropology, transforming Western notions of 'primitive' man.
Few books have had as powerful and broad an impact. 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.
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