Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Tristes Tropiques is a memoir, first published in France in 1955, by the anthropologist and structuralist Claude L vi-Strauss. It documents his travels and anthropological work, focusing principally on Brazil, though it refers to many other places, such as the Caribbean and India. Although ostensibly a travelogue, the work is infused with philosophical reflections and ideas linking many academic ...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Tristes Tropiques is a memoir, first published in France in 1955, by the anthropologist and structuralist Claude L vi-Strauss. It documents his travels and anthropological work, focusing principally on Brazil, though it refers to many other places, such as the Caribbean and India. Although ostensibly a travelogue, the work is infused with philosophical reflections and ideas linking many academic disciplines, such as sociology, geology, music, history and literature. The title literally means The Sad Tropics, but was translated into English by John Russell as A World on the Wane. Apparently the book was well-received on its publication. The organizers of the Prix Goncourt lamented that they were not able to award L vi-Strauss the prize because Tristes Tropiques was technically non-fiction. Georges Bataille wrote a favourable review and Susan Sontag classed it as one of the 20th century's 'great books'.
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