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Tristes Tropiques

“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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