by Claude Lévi-Strauss · Pocket · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782266119825
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«Tristes Tropiques» is the anthropology work by Claude Lévi-Strauss, published by Pocket in paperback (504 pages, in French).
Lévi-Strauss explains how one becomes an ethnologist and how the explorer's adventures integrate with the scientist's research, based on his stays among indigenous societies of central Brazil. More than a travel account, it is a reflection on travel, the relationship between the Old and New Worlds, and the meaning of civilization.
Work originally published in 1955; this edition belongs to the Terre humaine Poche collection.
For readers interested in anthropology, ethnology, and travel accounts with a philosophical background.
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.
