Aux sources de "Tristes tropiques ". Les carnets de terrain de Claude et Dina Lévi-Strauss. (1935 - 1939). Peinture is augmented by the reproduction

is augmented by the reproduction of 48 significant works from her career (drawings

remarkable for the richness of its iconography

" Alissa Descotes-Toyosaki is the first woman to "make" the salt caravan

Thanks to the association of three authors in love with ancient Anatolia

Volume X: Supplement

Aux sources de "Tristes tropiques ". Les carnets de terrain de Claude et Dina Lévi-Strauss. (1935 - 1939). Peinture is augmented by the reproduction"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: