Title : Sad Tropics - Claude Lévi-Strauss - Book

Summary :

The founding book of contemporary ethnology that revolutionized 20th-century thinking.

Why and how does one become an ethnologist? How do the adventures of the explorer and the research of the scholar integrate and form the experience specific to the ethnologist? These are the questions that the author, a philosopher and moralist as much as an ethnographer, has tried to answer by comparing his sometimes ancient memories, and relating to both Asia and America.
Claude Lévi-Strauss thus wishes to reconnect with the tradition of the philosophical journey illustrated by literature from the 16th century to the middle of the 19th century, that is to say before a poorly understood scientific austerity on the one hand, and the shameless taste for the sensational on the other, made us forget that we travel the world, first and foremost, in search of ourselves.

• EAN: 9782266026123
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