Tristes Tropiques (Modern Library) - Hardcover

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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ISBN 10: 0679602461 ISBN 13: 9780679602460

Verlag: Random House Inc, 1997

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Book by LeviStrauss Claude

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The leading exponent of structural anthropology comments on his experiences in South America prior to World War II, his life as a Jewish exile in German-occupied France, and his later years

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iques is one of the great books of our century," said Susan Sontag. "It is rigorous, subtle, and bold in thought. It is beauti-
fully written. And, like all great books, it bears an absolutely personal stamp; it speaks with a human voice."
    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 intellectual roots as a professor of philosophy in Brazil before the Second World War, as a Jewish exile from Nazi-occupied Europe, and later as a world-renowned academic (he taught at New York's New School for Social Research and was French cultural attaché to the United States). Lévi-Strauss's central journey leads from the Amazon basin through the dense upland jungles of Brazil. There, among the Amerindian

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• Verlag: Random House Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679602461
• ISBN 13: 9780679602460
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 517