by Claude Lévi-Strauss · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433902047
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«Tristos tròpics» is the anthropological essay by Claude Lévi-Strauss, published by Anagrama in paperback (438 pages, in Catalan).
Claude Lévi-Strauss recounts his travels and stays in Brazil in the 1930s among threatened indigenous communities. The narrative combines travel chronicle, intellectual autobiography and philosophical reflection to question the idea of Western civilization and show how knowledge of other cultures helps one understand oneself.
Catalan translation by Miquel Martí i Pol; part of Anagrama's Col·lecció Textos. «Tristos tròpics» was originally published in 1955 as Tristes tropiques.
For readers with Catalan proficiency interested in anthropology, philosophy and travel literature, and in twentieth-century classics of 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.
