Melancholy tropics

Author: (French) Claude Lévi-Strauss
Translator: Wang Zhiming
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: During his youth and adulthood, the author personally visited the Amazon River basin and the forests of the Brazilian highlands. Deep in the jungle, he found societies that had reverted to their basic forms. The Tristes Tropiques records his engaging and profound reflections and life experiences among several primitive tribes in places like the Kadiwéu, the Poro, and the Nambikwara. First published in 1955, this book is a masterpiece of anthropology, literature, and human thought that makes a rare contribution to promoting human self-understanding.