Tristes Tropiques
$38.56
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
6 November 2011
Summary
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 Lévi-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.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141197548 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141197544 |
| Author: | Claude Lévi-Strauss |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 6 November 2011 |
| Weight: | 331g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 131mm x 26mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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A magical masterpiece
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About The Author
Claude Lévi-Strauss
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 books include Structural Anthropology, Totemism and The Savage Mind.
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