Tristi Tropici by Claude Lévi-Strauss
A lyrical, often melancholic travel-memoir blending ethnographic reportage, philosophical reflection and methodological meditation: the narrator recounts years of fieldwork among indigenous peoples of Brazil, mapping ceremonies, social structures and myths while lamenting the destructive impact of colonialism and modernization. Mixing precise anthropological observation with poetic digressions, the book reflects on memory, loss, the impossibility of fully recovering vanished cultures, and the tensions between scientific analysis and personal experience. It alternates vivid passages of landscape and encounter with theoretical essays on history, myth and the nature of civilization, producing a manifesto for a humane, self-aware anthropology.
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- 1955
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- French
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- French
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