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"Tristes Tropiques was an immensely popular bestseller when it was first published in France in 1955. Claude Lévi-Strauss's ground-breaking study of the societies of a number of Amazonian peoples is a cornerstone of structural anthropology and an exploration by the author of his own intell...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lévi-Strauss, Claude (Author)
Other Authors: Russell, John, 1919-2008 (Translator), Weightman, John, 1915-2004 (Translator), Weightman, Doreen (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Atheneum, 1974.
Edition:[First complete American edition]
Subjects:
Lévi-Strauss, Claude > Travel > Brazil.
Indians of South America > Brazil.
Brazil > Description and travel.
Indians, South American > social life and customs.
Peuples autochtones > Brésil.
Brésil > Descriptions et voyages.
Australia
Indians of South America
Travel
Brazil
antropologie
anthropology
etnografie
ethnography
volkscultuur
folk culture
gebruiken
customs
volkenkunde
ethnology
Cultural Anthropology (General)
Culturele antropologie (algemeen)
Memoirs.
Travel writing.
Table of Contents:
  • An end to journeying
  • Travel notes
  • The new world
  • The Earth and its inhabitants
  • Caduveo
  • Bororo
  • Nambikwara
  • Tupi-Kawahib
  • The return.