The Sad Tropics (French: Tristes tropiques) is a book by anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, published in France in 1955, a travelogue documenting a trip to a minority group in Brazil in the 1930s, The ideas in the book, especially its excellent analysis of underdeveloped societies and its criticism of Eurocentrism, later earned the book sensational acclaim and made it one of the bibles of cultural anthropology and structuralism. It also had a profound influence on the humanities. In the final chapter, there is the famous passage, “The world began without man and will end without man.
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