Melancholy Tropics

Tropical Melancholy is a renowned intellectual autobiography by the master of structural anthropology, Claude Levi-Strauss, and a classic work in the history of anthropology. In his youth, Lévi-Strauss traveled the Amazon River basin and the Brazilian highlands, searching for human societies preserved in their most primitive forms deep within the jungle. This book recounts his fascinating and profound reflections and experiences among several of the most primitive tribes, including the Kaduveo, Pororo, and Nambikwara.
With a new approach, an open vision, keen insight, vivid imagination and delicate brushstrokes, Levi-Strauss placed these tribes in the context of human development as a whole, and proposed fascinating mutual verification and comparative studies.
Tropical Melancholy is a masterpiece of anthropology, literature, and human thought that makes a rare contribution to promoting human self-understanding.

2009-09-01

中国人民大学出版社

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