内容摘要 本书是1955年在法国出版时便非常受欢迎的畅销书。克洛德·列维-斯特劳斯的开创性的研究,许多亚马逊民族的社会结构的基石人类学和作者自己的知识根源的探索作为一个哲学教授在巴西在第二次世界大战之前,从纳粹占领的欧洲犹太人流亡,后来作为一个世界知名的学术(他在纽约的社会研究新学院和法国对美国文化专员)。列维-斯特劳斯的中心旅程从亚马逊盆地开始,穿过巴西茂密的高原丛林。在那里,在美洲印第安部落中——Caduveo、Bororo、Nambikwara和tupio - kawahib——他发现了“一个退化到基本表达形式的人类社会”。在那里,在美洲印第安部落中——Caduveo、Bororo、Nambikwara和tupio - kawahib——他发现了“一个退化到最基本表达形式的人类社会”。列维-斯特劳斯的讨论他的人类学田野调查的问题一直具有里程碑意义,是奇妙的心理敏捷性的一个示范,也是本世纪重要的思想家之一。 Tristes 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. Presented here is the translation by John and Doreen Weightman of the complete text of the revised French edition of 1968, together with the original photographs and illustrations.
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