Lévi-Strauss et les deux Amériques I- L’Amérique du Sud, en vertu de l’Amérique du Nord

Abstract

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

Keywords

• Brazil
• United States
• Lévi-Strauss
• Ethnography
• American Indians
• Amazonia