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Those who know Lévi-Strauss \u0026amp; Tristes Tropiques by reputation only will be pleasantly surprised by the intimate tone that colors even its most precise anthropological sections, as well as the autobiographical passages at the beginning, in which the author recounts how he fell into his career \u0026amp; how, shortly after the Nazis occupied Paris, he was forced to flee to America in a grueling sea voyage. 25 black-\u0026amp;-white photos of tribespeople, as well as numerous line drawings, accompany the text.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/claude-levi-strauss-books\"\u003eClaude Lévi-Strauss\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1989\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 544\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Pan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780330306454\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Pan","offers":[{"title":"Poor Condition — £11.53","offer_id":47900577431729,"sku":"SB-0330306456-C4","price":11.53,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/0330306456.jpg?v=1789393010"},{"product_id":"intro-work-marcel-mauss","title":"Intro Work Marcel Mauss","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1987. Claude Levi-Strauss is one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century, a leading exponent of structuralism and a great social anthropologist. His Introduction to the Work of Marcel Mauss, originally written to preface the earliest major collection of Mauss's writings, Sociologie et Anthropologie (1950), was hailed as a seminal text by leading structuralists such as Derrida, Lacan and Barthes. This edition, the first English translation to be published, should prove invaluable to anthropologists, philologists, psychologists, and all those interested in one of the most important intellectual movements generated by the twentieth century. Levi-Strauss uses an approach combining anthropology and structural linguistics to assess Marcel Mauss's achievements and intentions arguing that Mauss - who at the time represented the mainstream of French anthropology - was in fact structuralist manque. He goes on to formulate the central tenets of structuralist thought: the belief in societies being organised on immutable and unconscious laws, this foundation then providing the basis for true scientific study; multi-discplinary methodology combining anthropology, lingusitics and psychoanalysis; and a faith that a comprehensive science of communication can be made by the application of mathematical reasoning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/claude-levi-strauss-books\"\u003eClaude Lévi-Strauss\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1987\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 89\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Taylor \u0026amp; Francis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780415151580\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Very Good — £18.93","offer_id":47900643623089,"sku":"SB-0415151589-C2","price":18.93,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/0415151589.jpg?v=1788842250"},{"product_id":"tristes-tropiques-modern-library","title":"Tristes Tropiques (Modern Library)","description":"\u003cp\u003eTristes 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. 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His account of the people he encountered changed the field of anthropology, transforming Western notions of ‘primitive’ man. Tristes Tropiques is a major work of art as well as of scholarship. It is a memoir of exquisite beauty and a masterpiece of travel writing: funny, discursive, movingly detailing personal and cultural loss, and brilliantly connecting disparate fields of thought. 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