GREAT BOOKS 17: Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Tristes Tropiques, with Denis Hollier (NYU) | Think About It
Claude Lévi-Strauss Tristes Tropiques is one of the great books of the 20th century: intellectually bold, morally capacious, and it aims to understand nothing less than the elemental workings of the human mind. Ostensibly a travelogue and ethnographic account of a European’s fieldwork among indigenous people in mid-20th century Brazil, it is a work of impassioned curiosity and, even though it’s a pessimistic diagnosis of the damage humans (especially Europeans) have inflicted on the planet, it’s brimming with hope. The hope to grasp the essence of who we are and we continue to be below the threshold of thinking and above society: call it beauty, call it wisdom, call it human. Claude Lévi-Strauss invented the field of structural anthropology. In the 1930s he set out to Brazil and studied the indigenous cultures there. Guided by his three deities of Freud, Marx, and geology (all examining the substrata of our existence), he found that human beings make sense of their place in the world -
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