About this title: "Tristes Tropiques" records Lévi-Strauss's search for "a human society reduced to its most basic expression", and focuses on the tribes of the Caduvco, Bororo, Nambikwara, and Tupi-Kawahib of the Amazon basin and the upland jungles of Brazil. Lévi-Strauss draws fascinating comparisons and parallels among the tribes and human societies at large, ...
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Edition: [1st American ed. ]
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Criterion Books, New York
Date Published: 1961
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. 404 p. illus. 24 cm. "Chapters XIV, XV, XVI, and XXXIX of the French edition are omitted in this translation. " read more
Edition: [1st American ed. ]
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Criterion Books, New York
Date Published: 1961
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. 404 p. illus. 24 cm. "Chapters XIV, XV, XVI, and XXXIX of the French edition are omitted in this translation. " read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Atheneum, New York
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780689105722ISBN:068910572X
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner. Text in English, French. 425 p. illus. 25 cm. Includes Illustrations. Large trade paper in good used condition. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Atheneum, New York
Date Published: 1971
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Text in English, French. 404 p., [4] leaves of plates: ill., map; 19 cm. Atheneum paperbacks; 48. Atheneum 48. Includes: Illustrations, Maps, Plates. "Originally published in France under the title Tristes Tropiques by Librairie Plon, Paris, 1955: Chapters XIV, XV, XVI, and XXXIX of the French edition are omitted in this translation. " Ninth printing. Bibliography: p. 399. read more
Edition: First US Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Atheneum Publishers, New York
Date Published: 1974
Description: Good with no dust jacket. Small 4to-9" to 11" tall; 425 pages; Orange faded spine, wraps with minor edge wear. Text clean and tight. Illustrated with photos and line drawings. Translated by John and Doreen Weightman. Bookplate at front inside cover. Remainder mark. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780140165623ISBN:0140165622
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Owner's name on back page and corner crease on page 63 otherwise fine. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 432 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Pocket Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780671458508ISBN:0671458507
Description: Very Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, pages are toning, spine is lightly creased, former owner's name and a date in ink on the ffep, some light shelf wear, overall a clean used first Pocket Books paperback edition! Brown and white illustrated wrapper with gold, black, and white lettering. 484 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical and informative pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations and 16 wonderful pages of ... read more
Edition: 2nd Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Atheneum, New York
Date Published: 1974
Description: Yes. Very Good. No Jacket. 6"x9" This soft cover book has a color illustrated cover with white, black and yellow lettering on the front and spine of the cover. The spine is faded. An entirely new and complete translation of the now classic work by the dean of structural anthropologist. A book about primitive tribes in Brazil. 425 indexed pages. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Atheneum, New York
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780689105722ISBN:068910572X
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. Gpod-, Pages are edge soiled; wraps are bumped at the fore edge corners and there is a reading crease. Text in English. 425 p. illus. 25 cm. Includes Illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Criterion, New York
Date Published: nd (1961)
Description: Hardcover, 8vo, 404pp, colour frontis, b/w plates, map, line drawings, bibliography, index. Cloth a little discoloured and rubbed otherwise VG lacks d/w. First American edition. Translated by John Russell. read more
Edition: First edition. 1st. ed. ?
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Criterion Books, New York
Date Published: 1961
Description: New in new dust jacket. book tight clean, bright pages, dj bright clean. Text in English, French. 404 p. illus. 24 cm. Includes Illustrations. "Chapters XIV, XV, XVI, and XXXIX of the French edition are omitted in this translation. " Includes bibliography. read more
Edition: First Separate
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Plon
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9782266026123ISBN:2266026127
Description: Collectible; Good. VG-1999 ~~FRENCH LANGUAGE~~ PLON/POCKET PB WITH ORIGINAL COVER PHOTO. SCARCE TITLE BY LEVI-STRAUSS, ONE OF HIS FINEST ACHIEVEMENTS, AND A GREAT WORK ON THIS SUBJECT. A VERY FEW MARGINAL MARKINGS IN PEN ONLY, OTHERWISE VG COPY. IMMEDIATE 1ST CLASS/AIRMAIL DISPATCH WORLDWIDE. read more
Description: Very good; Collectible. 1973 Jonathan Cape (UK) hard cover-1st edition-some wear and staining to dust jacket (now in mylar cover) some staining to page edge-otherwise cover fine binding strong contents clean-enjoy. read more
Description: Very good; Collectible. 1973 Jonathan Cape (UK) hard cover-1st edition-some wear and staining to dust jacket (now in mylar cover) some staining to page edge-otherwise cover fine binding strong contents clean-enjoy. read more
really, this should have been right up my alley. early, prehistoric anthropology mixed with diary-esque tangents about art and sex and gender roles and travel.
but blah! this book put me to sleep every night for weeks before I skipped ahead 100 pages.
then I fell asleep again for a few nights.
now it's collecting dust.
maybe I'm just not French enough, which would make sense because I'm not French at all."
"Going to have to put this one down for a while - too much on my plate!
I do like the author's voice. He tells his story clearly, but in a way that reminds me of Gabriel Garcia Marquez with its winding narrative and colorful characters."
"Frequently offensive and occasionally appalling, but nonetheless fascinating and filled with some really poignant observations. It's a surprisingly quick read, written in a warm, intimate style - quite pleasurable."
"I don't think I can say it any better than SS: "Tristes Tropiques is one of the great books of our century. It is rigorous, subtle, and bold in thought. It is beautifully written. And, like all great books, it bears an absolutely personal stamp; it speaks with a human voice." _______________________________________
Only forty pages in and I already sense that this will be one of the best books I've read in the last five years:
I wished I had lived in the days of real journeys, when it was still possible to see the full splendor of a spectacle that had not yet been blighted, polluted and spoiled; I wished I had not trodden that ground as myself, but as Bernier, Tavernier, or Manucci did.... In short, I have only two possibilities: either I can be like some traveller of the olden days, who was faced with a stupendous spectacle, all, or almost all, of which eluded him, or worse still, filled him with scorn and disgust; or I can be a modern traveller, chasing after the vestiges of a vanished reality. I lose on both counts,...for, while I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. A few hundred years hence, in this same place, another traveler, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see. I am subject to a double infirmity: all that I perceive offends me, and I constantly reproach myself for not seeing as much as I should."
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