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 to the Amazon 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, Poloro, and Nambiquara.
With a new approach, open vision, keen insight, and supplemented by vivid imagination and delicate brushstrokes, Levi-Strauss placed these tribes in the context of human development as a whole, proposed fascinating mutual verification and comparative studies, and presented profound thinking on human civilization and destiny.

出版日期/Publication Date：August 1, 2023
出版社/Publisher：中国人民大学出版社
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页数/Page: 564