Tristes Tropiques by Claude Lévi-Strauss
$15.00
Tristes Tropiques is Claude Lévi-Strauss's celebrated blend of anthropology, travel writing, autobiography and cultural reflection. Drawing on his fieldwork in Brazil, Lévi-Strauss examines Indigenous societies while also questioning Western ideas of progress, civilisation and cultural difference.
Author: Claude Lévi-Strauss
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication year: 1976
Format: Paperback
Pages: 544
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0140043934
ISBN-13: 9780140043938
Condition: Used vintage paperback with moderate-to-heavy rubbing, creasing and edge wear to the covers, including worn corners and surface scuffing. Spine shows reading wear. Binding remains intact.
Book details
- Title
- Tristes Tropiques
- Authors
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Published
- 1976
- Language
- English
- Binding
- Paperback
- Edition
- Penguin edition
- Subjects
- Anthropology; Sociology; Brazil; Travel writing; Structuralism
- Page count
- 544
- ISBN-13
- 9780140043938
Collections: ALL BOOKS, ALL PRODUCTS, NON-FICTION BOOKS, VINTAGE BOOKS
Type: NON FICTION
Category: 1970S, @ACH005, @SHOPFLOOR, ANTHROPOLOGY, BOOKS, BRAZIL, CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, MEMOIR, NON FICTION, PENGUIN BOOKS, SOCIOLOGY, STRUCTURALISM, TRAVEL WRITING, VINTAGE BOOKS
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