Ebook {Epub PDF} Tristes tropiques by Claude Lévi-Strauss

 · Tristes Tropiques by Claude Lévi-Strauss – melancholy anthropology. This careful account of an encounter with a very foreign people is freighted Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. Tristes Tropiques is a memoir by French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss. Translated into English as “Sad Tropics,” it recounts his travels and research, most of which took place in Brazil, India, and the Caribbean in the early s.  · Ayant toujours à l'esprite le goût du voyage, j'ai relu des récits d'expéditions et cette fois, je me suis replongée dans "Tristes Tropiques" de Claude Lévi-Strauss. Un livre paru en , donc pas vraiment récent, mais c'est peut-être l'un des plus célèbres de cet écrivain ethnologue et il fait partie de la bien connue collection Terre Humaine/5(50).

Tristes Tropiques was published in France in to great acclaim and garnered Claude Lévi-Strauss a faithful readership. It has been translated twice into English, first by John Russell () and again by John and Doreen Weightman (), and has appeared in many other languages as well. The book is still in print in both French and English. 9 septembre Claude LEVI STRAUSS raconte les circonstances de l'écriture de "Tristes Tropiques". Images d'archive INAInstitut National de l'Audiovisuelhtt. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Tristes Tropiques by Claude Levi-Strauss,Translated from the French by John and Doreen Weightman, 1st British Edition,, Published by Jonathan Cape, Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay Ltd, Hardback,has slight fading to covers and spine, Dust jacket,has yellowing to jacket, has wear and multiple tearing to jacket.

Tristes Tropiques by Claude Lévi-Strauss – melancholy anthropology. This careful account of an encounter with a very foreign people is freighted with great sadness at the colonial legacy his. Tristes Tropiques is a memoir by French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss. Translated into English as “Sad Tropics,” it recounts his travels and research, most of which took place in Brazil, India, and the Caribbean in the early s. This literate personage journeyed through central Brazil in the 30s, only to record his findings some 20 later in his book Tristes Tropiques, an untranslated title because no equivalent can be found in www.doorway.ruscent of his forebear, Marcel Proust, Levi-Strauss presents us with memories distilled through time from which a structure emerges.