Tristes Tropiques begins with the line 'I hate travelling and
explorers', yet 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'. 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. Few books have had as powerful and broad an impact.
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