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"Tristes Tropiques (the French title translates literally as "Sad Tropics") is a memoir, first published in France in 1955, by the anthropologist and structuralist Claude Lévi-Strauss. It documents his travels and anthropological work, focusing principally on Brazil... Although ostens...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lévi-Strauss, Claude (Author)
Other Authors: Russell, John, 1919-2008 (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Criterion Books ; [1961]
Edition:[First American edition]
Subjects:
Lévi-Strauss, Claude > Travel > Brazil.
Brazil > Description and travel.
Brazil > Antiquities.
Indians of South America > Brazil.
Brazil > Civilization.
Brésil > Descriptions et voyages.
Peuples autochtones > Brésil.
Histoire.
history (discipline)
Indians of South America
Travel
Brazil
Memoirs.
Travel writing.
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Destinations
  • pt. 2. From a log-book
  • pt. 3. The New World
  • pt. 4. A land and its people
  • pt. 5. The Caduveo
  • pt. 6. The Bororo
  • pt. 7. The Nambikwara
  • pt. 8. The Tupi-Kawahib
  • pt. 9. The return.