Aux sources de "Tristes tropiques ". Les carnets de terrain de Claude et Dina Lévi-Strauss. (1935 - 1939). Peinture women on the run

women on the run

A beautiful reflection echoing the photographs

also aims to echo the various facets of the erudition of this orator

to name only the best known

Aux sources de "Tristes tropiques ". Les carnets de terrain de Claude et Dina Lévi-Strauss. (1935 - 1939). Peinture women on the run"I hate travel and explorers." In 1955, these are the few words with which Tristes Tropiques begins. Twenty years earlier, between 1935 and 1939, Claude Lvi Strauss, its author, traveled across Brazil with his first wife, the philosopher and anthropologist Dina Dreyfus, meeting the indigenous peoples of Mato Grosso. Field notebooks from these months spent in the heart of the Amazon survive. Now deposited at the BnF, they contain a veritable treasure: