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Tristes tropiques

This watershed work records Claude Lévi-Strauss's search for "a human society reduced to its most basic expression." From the Amazon basin through the dense upland jungles of Brazil, Lévi-Strauss found the societies he was seeking among the Caduveo, Bororo, Nambikwara, and Tupi-Kawahib. More than merely recounting his time in their midst, Tristes Tropiques places the cultural practices of these peoples in a global context and extrapolates a fascinating theory of culture that has given the book an importance far beyond the fields of anthropology and continental philosophy. The author's fresh approach, sense of humor, and openness to the sensuous mystique of the tropics make the scientific thrust of the book eminently accessible. -- Back cover.

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  • "Anthropological study of primitive societies in Brazil"@en
  • "Tristes tropiques"@pl
  • "Tristes tropiques"@it
  • "Tristes Tropiques"

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  • "Verslag van een reis door de binnenlanden van Brazilië afgewisseld met cultuurfilosofische beschouwingen over de antropologie."
  • "Verslag van een reis door de binnelanden van Brazilië, afgewisseld met cultuurfilosofische beschouwingen over de antropologie."
  • ""Ho cercato la mia strada molto a lungo. In etnologia sono un completo autodidatta. Una prima rivelazione l'ho avuta per ragioni inconfessabili: smania d'evasione, desiderio di viaggiare." Queste parole di Claude Lévi-Strauss riassumono il senso di "Tristi Tropici", resoconto delle spedizioni compiute dall'autore nel Mato Grosso e nella foresta amazzonica. Quando Lévi-Strauss, nel 1934, arrivò a Sào Paulo per ricoprire la cattedra di sociologia all'università, il suo interesse per l'antropologia era ancora una passione non concretizzata. Una volta giunto in Brasile, la curiosità per le culture indigene e il desiderio di visitare un paese in gran parte inesplorato lo spinsero a organizzare una serie di ricerche "sul campo". Entrò così in contatto con le tribù autoctone, potè conoscerne direttamente le usanze e la vita quotidiana. Di ritorno da quel lungo viaggio, Lévi-Strauss lasciò calare il silenzio su quell'esperienza: non una parola che ricordasse le difficoltà, i rischi che gli incontri con civiltà indigene gli avevano procurato. Quindici anni più tardi, decise di raccontare ciò che aveva visto e vissuto. E nel 1955 uscì questo saggio, che cambiò per sempre i destini dell'antropologia ma che è soprattutto un racconto vivo dove si intrecciano descrizioni degli uomini e della natura, aneddoti, considerazioni filosofiche e narrazione dell'avventura quotidiana del ricercatore."
  • "This watershed work records Claude Lévi-Strauss's search for "a human society reduced to its most basic expression." From the Amazon basin through the dense upland jungles of Brazil, Lévi-Strauss found the societies he was seeking among the Caduveo, Bororo, Nambikwara, and Tupi-Kawahib. More than merely recounting his time in their midst, Tristes Tropiques places the cultural practices of these peoples in a global context and extrapolates a fascinating theory of culture that has given the book an importance far beyond the fields of anthropology and continental philosophy. The author's fresh approach, sense of humor, and openness to the sensuous mystique of the tropics make the scientific thrust of the book eminently accessible. -- Back cover."@en
  • "Cestopis francouzského etnologa světového jména, věnovaný kmenům Jižní Ameriky. tj. Kaďuvejům, Bororům, Nambikwárům, Tupíům-Kawahíbům. Autor zakladá své líčení jak na dlouholetém trpělivém studiu, tak zejména nadlouholetémtrpělivém pozorování v terénu. Tato důkladná studijní i praktická příprava umožňuje mu potom vysvětlovat jednotlivě detaily kultury z jevů zdánlivě bezvýznamných a říkat nejenom to, co viděl a prožil, ale i to, co sizmíněnékmeny myslí o sobě a o světě. Knihu doprovází množství náčrtů, kreseb a fotografií."
  • "A milestone in the study of culture from the father of structural anthropology. This watershed work records Claude Levi-Strauss's search for "a human society reduced to its most basic expression." From the Amazon basin through the dense upland jungles of Brazil, Levi-Strauss found the societies he was seeking among the Caduveo, Bororo, Nambikwara, and Tupi-Kawahib. More than merely recounting his time in their midst, Tristes Tropiques places the cultural practices of these peoples in a global context and extrapolates a fascinating theory of culture that has given the book an importance far beyond the fields of anthropology and continental philosophy. The author's fresh approach, sense of humor, and openness to the sensuous mystique of the tropics make the scientific thrust of the book eminently accessible."@en
  • "Tristes Tropiques was an immensely popular bestseller when it was first published in France in 1955. Claude Levi-Strauss's groundbreaking 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 attache to the United States). Levi-Strauss's central journey leads from the Amazon basin through the dense upland jungles of Brazil. There, among the Amerindian tribes - the Caduveo, Bororo, Nambikwara, and Tupi-Kawahib - he found "a human society reduced to its most basic expression." Levi-Strauss's discussion of his fieldwork in Tristes Tropiques endures as a milestone of anthropology, but the book is also, in its brilliant diversions on other, more familiar cultures, a great work of literature, a vivid travelogue, and an engaging memoir - a demonstration of the marvelous mental agility of one of the century's most important thinkers. Presented here is the translation by John and Doreen Weightman of the complete text of the revised French edition of 1968, together with the original photographs and illustrations."
  • "This book is a report of the authors journey through the Amazon basin and the dense upland jungles of Brazil, where the primitive tribes lived in basic human societies."@en

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  • "Cestopisy"
  • "Reisbeschrijvingen (vorm)"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Books of travels"

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  • "Tristes tropiques"@it
  • "Tristes tropiques"
  • "Tristes tropiques"@en
  • "Tristes tropiques"@es
  • "Kulturspillror"@sv
  • "Kulturspillror"
  • "Tristes Tropiques"
  • "Tristi Tropici"
  • "Traurige Tropen"
  • "Traurige Tropen : Indianer in Brasilien"
  • "Pečal'nye tropiki"
  • "Tristos tròpics"@ca
  • "Tristos tròpics"
  • "Tristes tropiques : [the internationally famous classic of modern anthropology]"
  • "Kanashiki Minami kaikisen"
  • "Tropiikin kasvot"@fi
  • "Печальные тропики / Клод Леви-Строс"
  • "You yu de re dai"
  • "Tristes tropiques : An anthropological study of primitive societies in Brazil"
  • "悲しき南回帰線"
  • "Smutné tropy"
  • "Pechal'nye tropiki"
  • "Thliveroi tropikoi"
  • "Tristes Tropicos"@pt
  • "Tristes Tropicos"
  • "A world on the wane"@en
  • "A world on the wane"
  • "Het trieste der tropen"
  • "忧郁的热带 = Tristes Tropiques"
  • "Traurige Tropfen"
  • "Tristes Tropiques : an anthropological study of primitive societies in Brazil"@en
  • "Traurige Tropen : [Indianer in Brasilien]"
  • "Traurige Tropen [aus d. Franz.]"
  • "Triste tropiques"
  • "忧郁的热带"
  • "憂鬱的熱帶"
  • "Tristes trópicos : Traducida por noelia Bastard"@es
  • "You yu de re dai = Tristes Tropiques"
  • "Tristes Tropiques [engl.]"
  • "Sulpun yoltae"
  • "A world on the wane. [A study of some near-extinct tribes in central Brazil]"@en
  • "Tristes tropiques avec 38 ill. et une carte dans le texte et 63 photographies de l'auteur hors texte"
  • "Печальные тропики"
  • "Tristes tropiques : the internationally famous classic of modern anthropology"
  • "憂鬱的熱帶 ; te je tai"
  • "Tristes trópicos"@pt
  • "Tristes trópicos"@es
  • "Tristes trópicos"
  • "You yu de re dai Tristes tropiques"
  • "憂鬱的熱帶 Tristes tropiques"
  • "Tristi Tropici : Claude Lévi-Strauss"@it
  • "Tristes tropiques : Avec 38 illustrations et une carte dans le texte et 63 photographies hors texte"
  • "You yu de re dai ; te je tai"
  • "Smutek tropików"@pl
  • "Smutek tropików"
  • "Sulp'ŭn yŏltae"
  • "Tristes Trópicos"@pt
  • "Tristes tropicos"@pt
  • "Tristes tropicos"@es
  • "Tristos trópics"@es
  • "Tropiko tristeak"
  • "悲しき熱帯"
  • "Sŭlp'ŭn yŏltae"
  • "Tristes tropiques ... Avec 38 illustrations et une carte dans le texte et 63 photographies de l'auteur hors texte"
  • "Tristes tropiques : tr. from French by John Russell"@en
  • "Tristes tropiques : [an anthropological study of primitive societies in Brazil]"
  • "Tristes tropiques, par C. Lévi-Strauss"
  • "Het trieste der tropen : reisverslag van een antropoloog"
  • "Tropisk elegi"
  • "Kanashiki nettai"
  • "Tristes tropiques : avec 38 illustrations et une carte dans le texte et 63 photographies de l'auteur hors texte"
  • "Pechalʹnye tropiki"
  • "Tristi tropici"@it
  • "Tristi tropici"
  • "[Tristes tropiques.] A World on the Wane. Translated ... by John Russell. [With plates.]"@en
  • "[Tristes tropiques.] A World on the Wane. Translated ... by John Russell. [With plates.]"
  • "슬픈 熱帶"
  • "Tristes tropiques : an anthropological study of primitive societies in Brazil"
  • "Kanashiki minamikaikisen"@ja
  • "Tristes tropiques; avec 38 illus. et une carte dans le texte et 63 photographies de l'auteur hors texte"
  • "Kanashiki minami kaikisen"
  • "Tristes tropiques : translated from the French by John and Doreen Weightman"@en
  • "Pechalnye tropiki"
  • "슬픈열대"
  • "Spillror av paradiset"
  • "Spillror av paradiset"@sv
  • "Regnskógabeltiđ raunamædda"

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