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Tristes Tropiques (Penguin Classics)

Author

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Credits

Claude Lévi-Strauss; translated by John & Doreen Weightman; introduction by Patrick Wilcken

Edition

Penguin Classics, 2012 reprint (translation originally 1973)

ASIN

0143106252

Level

Beginner · literary entry

Kindle

Confirmed (ASIN B006CUDEDW)

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What this book does

Lévi-Strauss’s 1955 travel memoir and anthropological meditation on his 1930s fieldwork in Brazil, among the Caduveo, Bororo, Nambikwara, and Tupi-Kawahib. Part autobiography, part philosophy, and part ethnography, it is his most accessible and literary work—and the best place to begin without prior anthropology.

Why it belongs in this reading order

Start here for the person, the journey, and the questions that later become structural anthropology.

Who should choose it

This is the literary doorway for a first-time reader in this five-book path. Its role is to prepare the next step without pretending every reader needs to begin with advanced theory.

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