by Claude Levi-Strauss · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782266013949
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«Tristes Tropiques» is the anthropological essay by Claude Lévi-Strauss, published by Adler's Foreign Books Inc in paperback (504 pages, in French).
A classic of anthropology, originally published in 1955, in which Lévi-Strauss explains how one becomes an ethnologist and interweaves his travels through Brazil and other regions with a reflection on indigenous cultures and Western civilization. Lévi-Strauss champions the philosophical journey as a search for oneself.
Part of the Terre Humaine collection; the cover bears the author's mention as a member of the Académie française.
For readers of anthropology and essays, and for those seeking a classic of twentieth-century thought.
Claude Lévi-Strauss was a Belgian-born French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. He held the chair of Social Anthropology at the Collège de France between 1959 and 1982, was elected a member of the Académie française in 1973 and was a member of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. He received numerous honors from universities and institutions throughout the world.
