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While levistrauss was well known in academic circles, in 1955 he became one of frances best known intellectuals by publishing tristes tropiques in paris that year by plon and translated into english in 1973, published by penguin. While a professor at sao paolo university in brazil, levistrauss travelled extensively through the amazon basin and the dense upland jungles of brazil. Bernard dionysius geoghegan, from information theory to french theory. Andrew peklers tristes tropiques is an album of synthetic exotica, pseudoethnographic music and unreal field recordings. Tristes tropiques was originally written in 1955 about a brazilian expedition in the late 30s. Thus does levi strauss begin his chapter, the lost world, in his famous but recently revised and now retranslated autobiography, tristes tropiques. Tristes tropiques by claude levistrauss, 9780141197548, download free ebooks, download free pdf epub ebook. A member of the french academy, he authored numerous works.
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