The Sources of "Tristes Tropiques". The Field Notebooks of Claude and Dina Lévi-Strauss. (1935 - 1939).
EHESS| N° d'inventaire | 32143 |
| Format | 17 X 22 |
| Détails | 369 p., numerous photographs and documents, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2025 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782713233982 |
"I hate travel and explorers." In 1955, these are the few words with which Tristes Tropiques begins. Twenty years earlier, between 1935 and 1939, Claude Lévi-Strauss, its author, traveled across Brazil with his first wife, the philosopher and anthropologist Dina Dreyfus, meeting the indigenous peoples of Mato Grosso. Field notebooks from these months spent in the heart of the Amazon survive. Now deposited at the BnF, they contain a veritable treasure: ethnographic and linguistic notes, sketches, musical scores, novel excerpts, photographs. This book, resulting from research carried out on this documentary collection and illustrated with the finest pieces from the archive, sheds new light on the genesis of one of the most famous travel stories of the 20th century .
"I hate travel and explorers." In 1955, these are the few words with which Tristes Tropiques begins. Twenty years earlier, between 1935 and 1939, Claude Lévi-Strauss, its author, traveled across Brazil with his first wife, the philosopher and anthropologist Dina Dreyfus, meeting the indigenous peoples of Mato Grosso. Field notebooks from these months spent in the heart of the Amazon survive. Now deposited at the BnF, they contain a veritable treasure: ethnographic and linguistic notes, sketches, musical scores, novel excerpts, photographs. This book, resulting from research carried out on this documentary collection and illustrated with the finest pieces from the archive, sheds new light on the genesis of one of the most famous travel stories of the 20th century .