| Popis: |
If South America’s interior and the thirties are used as the setting of Tristes Tropiques, in reality the book was drafted with a double gap in time and space. In time, because the Second World War which intervened between the Brazilian explorations and their narration upset the perspective that Lévi-Strauss, survivor of the Nazi persecutions, has had of history generally and of his own fate in particular. In space because North America, his place of exile, serves as a hidden mirror of his reflections on colonialism, the quest of ethnological otherness and finally history |
