'Every word, like a sacred object, has its place. No pr�cis is possible. This extraordinary book must be read.'�Edmund Carpenter, New York Times Book Review
'No outline is possible; I can only say that reading this book is a most exciting intellectual exercise in which dialectic, wit, and imagination combine to stimulate and provoke at every page.'�Edmund Leach, <…
Tristes Tropiques was an immensely popular bestseller when it was first published in France in 1955. Claude Levi-Strauss's groundbreaking study of the societies of a number of Amazonian peoples is a cornerstone of structural anthropology and an exploration by the author of his own intellectual roots as a professor of philosophy in Brazil before the Second World War, as a Jewish exile from Nazi-…
'There is no easier or quicker way than through this book into that heart of darkness Levi-Strauss calls 'totalitarian ambition of the savage mind' as it throbs beneath the surface of the 'civilized' mind.'--Philip Rieff, Professor of Psychiatry, Medical College of Pennsylvania
�Bila seseorang yang baru mendengar nama L�vi-Strauss meminta saya menjelaskan seperti apa dia, akan saya ambil Mitos dan Makna dan membacanya keras-keras.�� Wendy Doniger, Universitas Chicago Modernitas membuat kita menampik mitos sebagai suatu produk pemikiran primitif yang kualitasnya jauh di bawah pemikiran manusia modern. Namun benarkah demikian? Antropolog terkemuka …