Tristes Tropiques

Informationen zum Autor Claude Levi-Strauss was born in 1908 and died in 2009. He is the founder of modern anthropology and taught in France, Brazil and at the New School in New York before being appointed to the Chair of Social Anthropology at the College de France in 1959. His other boks include Structural Anthropology , Totemism and The Savage Mind . Klappentext Claude Levi-Strauss was born in 1908 and died in 2009. He is the founder of modern anthropology and taught in France, Brazil and at the New School in New York before being appointed to the Chair of Social Anthropology at the College de France in 1959. His other boks include Structural Anthropology , Totemism and The Savage Mind . Zusammenfassung During his life Claude Levi-Strauss travelled from wartime France to the Amazon basin and the dense upland jungles of Brazil, where he found 'human society reduced to its most basic expression'. This book details personal and cultural loss, connecting disparate fields of thought.

Product details

• Authors: Claude Levi-Strauss, Claude Lévi-Strauss
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.09.2011
• EAN: 9780141197548
• ISBN: 978-0-14-119754-8
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; Brazil, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, TRAVEL / South America / Brazil, Classic Travel Writing