Tristes Tropiques

Claude Lévi-Strauss

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Penguin
07 November 2011

Society & Social Sciences; Travel writing

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

First Modern Classics publication of this landmark work of social anthropology

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'. 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.

By: Claude Lévi-Strauss
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 332g
ISBN: 9780141197548
ISBN 10: 0141197544
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 07 November 2011
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.