"Fotografische impressies van ontmoetingen met Indianenstammen tijdens reizen in de Braziliaanse binnenlanden, gemaakt tussen 1935 en 1939 door de Franse socioloog en etnoloog."
"Claude Levi-Strauss, internationally known as a brilliant and sometimes controversial anthropologist, is also a skilled and sensitive photographer. Saudades do Brasil - "nostalgia for Brazil," from the title of a musical composition by Darius Milhaud - presents 180 of the more than 3,000 photographs Levi-Strauss took in Brazil between 1935 and 1939. While serving as professor of sociology at the University of Sao Paulo, the young ethnographer made expeditions among the natives of Mato Grosso and Southern Amazonia that resulted in numerous publications, most notably Tristes Tropiques. Most of these photographs are published here for the first time."
"Un témoignage de Claude Lévi-Strauss sur le Brésil et ses habitants d'il y a plus d'un demi-siècle, auxquels l'auteur adresse, ainsi qu'à sa jeunesse lointaine, un salut amical et nostalgique. Les photographies, accompagnées de riches commentaires, parlent d'un monde devenu aujourd'hui méconnaissable."