by Claude Lévi-Strauss · Pocket · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782266026123
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Tristes Tropiques is a seminal work by Claude Lévi-Strauss, first published in 1955. This book is a groundbreaking study of the societies of various Amazonian peoples and an exploration of the author's intellectual roots as a philosophy professor in Brazil before World War II. Lévi-Strauss reflects on his experience as a Jewish exile from Nazi-occupied Europe and his subsequent career as a world-renowned academic. The book is at once a travelogue, an intellectual autobiography, and a reflection on the human condition and cultural diversity.
Claude Lévi-Strauss was a Belgian-born French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. He held the chair of Social Anthropology at the Collège de France between 1959 and 1982, was elected a member of the Académie française in 1973 and was a member of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. He received numerous honors from universities and institutions throughout the world.
