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Lévi-Strauss, Claude (1908-2009) Tristes Tropiques, first American edition.
New York: Criterion Books, 1961.
Stated first American edition, octavo; translated into English by John Russell; with a frontispiece and 63 black-and-white photographs; bound in publisher's full green cloth stamped in blue and gilt, light gray endpapers, blueish topstain; with the unclipped pictorial dust jacket (edgewear to jacket, some small losses at spine ends, stain to lower panel; spine lightly sunned, a few spots); 9 x 5 1/2 in.
Claude Lévi-Strauss's groundbreaking memoir of his time studying Amazonian culture and its various peoples was immensely popular when it first came out in France in 1955. Today, it is considered a cornerstone of structuralist anthropology, offering both an unparalleled exploration of human society and a glimpse into the intellectual journey of the author himself.
