Tristes Tropiques begins with the line 'I hate travelling and explorers', yet during his life Claude Lévi-Strauss travelled from wartime France to the Amazon basin and the dense upland jungles of Brazil, where he found 'human society reduced to its most basic expression'. His account of the people he encountered changed the field of anthropology, transforming Western notions of 'primitive' man. Tristes Tropiques is a major work of art as well as of scholarship. It is a memoir of exquisite beauty and a masterpiece of travel writing: funny, discursive, movingly detailing personal and cultural loss, and brilliantly connecting disparate fields of thought. Few books have had as powerful and broad an impact.

SKU	898180
Autor	STRAUSS, CLAUDE LEVI
Editora	PENGUIN CLASSICS
ISBN	9780141197548
EAN	9780141197548
Categoria	Viagem e Turismo
Assunto	Guias
Páginas	448
Número da Edição
Ano da Edição	2011
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