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Levi-Strauss's journey to the Tropics.(Claude Levi-Strauss)
Portuguese Studies
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March 22, 2006|
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Translated by Marcel de Lima
'All ethnography is part philosophy, and a good deal of the rest is confession.'
Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures
As the first chapters of Tristes Tropiques unfold, Claude Levi-Strauss makes it clear to his reader that his journey to Brazil and, later on, his contact with its Indians were both products of chance. (1) 'A somewhat perverse whim on the part of [professor] George Dumas', (2) added to mundane circumstances of the French university milieu, at the time favoured cultural sponsor of the elite of ...
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