Tristes Tropiques"A magical masterpiece."—Robert Ardrey. A chronicle of the author's search for a civilization "reduced to its most basic expression." |
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Inhalt
The West Indies | |
The Quest for Power | |
PART TWO TRAVEL NOTES | |
Looking Back | |
A facial painting 194 | |
PART SIX BORORO | |
Gold and Diamonds | |
Virtuous Savages | |
The penis sheath 217 | |
A lip ornament and earrings 218 | |
Plan of Kejara village 220 | |
A wooden club for killing fish 222 | |
The Making of an Anthropologist | |
Sunset | |
PART THREE THE NEW WORLD | |
The Doldrums | |
Guanabara | |
Crossing the Tropic | |
São Paulo | |
PART FOUR THE EARTH AND ITS INHABITANTS | |
Towns and Countryside | |
An ancient figa found at Pompeii 111 | |
A calvary cross from the State of São Paulo 114 | |
Pioneer Zone | |
The Magic Carpet | |
Crowds | |
Markets | |
PART FIVE CADUVEO | |
Parana | |
Caingang pottery 157 | |
Pantanal | |
Nalike | |
5A waterjar 173 | |
Three specimens of Caduveo pottery 174 | |
Caduveo jewellery 175 | |
A Native Community and its LifeStyle | |
and 11 Caduveo patterns 179 | |
1217 Motifs used in body painting and 181 183 | |
Two facepaintings 186 | |
A pattern painted on leather 189 | |
and 23 Body paintings as recorded in 1895 and 1935 192 | |
Bows with clan decorations 223 | |
Emblazoned penis sheaths 226 | |
A black pottery bowl 228 | |
Two specimens of the Bororo pocketknife 228 | |
The Living and the Dead | |
A Bororo painting representing an officiant trumpets a rattle and various ornaments | |
PART SEVEN NAMBIKWARA | |
The Lost World | |
In the Sertão | |
On the Line | |
Family Life | |
A Writing Lesson | |
Men Women and Chiefs | |
PART EIGHT TUPIKAWAHIB | |
A Canoe Trip | |
Robinson Crusoe | |
In the Forest | |
The Village of the Crickets | |
The Farce of the Japim Bird | |
Amazonia | |
Seringal | |
PART NINE THE RETURN | |
The Apotheosis of Augustus | |
A Little Glass of | |
Taxila | |
The Kyong | |
BORORO | |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | Tristes Tropiques |
| Autor | Claude Levi-Strauss |
| Übersetzt von | John Weightman, Doreen Weightman |
| Mitwirkende Personen | Patrick Wilcken |
| Verlag | Penguin, 2012 |
| ISBN | 1101575603, 9781101575604 |
| Länge | 448 Seiten |
| Zitat exportieren | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |