Claude Levi-Strauss

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Tristes Tropiques (Revised)Paperback - Revised, 31 January 2012

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Reading Age
Ages: 18
Grade Levels
13
Part of Series
Penguin Classics
Print Length
448 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Penguin Group
Date Published
31 Jan 2012
ISBN-10
0143106252
ISBN-13
9780143106258

Description

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.

Product Details

Audience:
Ages: 18
Author:
Claude Levi-Strauss
Book Edition:
Revised
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
31 January 2012
Dimensions:
21.08 x 13.72 x 2.79 cm
Educational Level:
Grade Levels: 13
ISBN-10:
0143106252
ISBN-13:
9780143106258
Language:
English
Location:
New York, NY
Pages:
448
Publisher:
Weight:
358.34 gm

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