melancholic tropics

Melancholic Tropics is the famous ideological autobiography of Levi-Strauss, the master of structural anthropology, and it is also one of the classic works in the history of anthropology. In his youth, Levi-Strauss personally visited the Amazon River Basin and the Brazilian highland forest, searching for the most primitive human society in the depths of the jungle. This book describes his interesting and profound thinking process and life experience in the most primitive tribes such as Kaduweiou, Bororo, and Nambikwara.

Levi-Strauss puts these tribes in the context of human development with a new path, open eyes, keen insight, vivid and rich imagination and delicate brushstrokes, and puts forward fascinating cross-validation and comparative studies.

Melancholic Tropics is a masterpiece of anthropology, literature, and human thought that made a rare contribution to human self-understanding.