PTo explore the archives of great authors is to bring to light treasures of literary and intellectual heritage. The proof is in these three publications, which will please curious travelers at the end of the year, including those on stationary journeys… Happy reading.
Claude Lévi-Strauss: unpublished texts and films
He did not attach “much importance” to his photos, nor to his films. “Ethnographic films bore me,” said Claude Lévi-Strauss. But not us, moved to see, at a very young age, the future author of Sad Tropics on an expedition to Mato Grosso with his first wife Dina Dreyfus, in 1935. The couple co-directed five films there, all restored by the Brazilian Cinematheque of São Paulo in 2022, accessible by QR code at the end of this beautiful book. Of which this is not the only treasure! It brings together ten texts, most of them published only in Portuguese in Brazil, and one previously unpublished text on “Fascism in Brazil”. Whether it is “Cubism and everyday life”, written when Lévi-Strauss was not yet 20 years old, “Perrault’s tales and their sociological significance”, the creation of an anthropology institute, in Brazil, everything testifies to the formation of the mind that we know.
In “The Largest Horizons of the World”, the text which gives its title to the collection, the future anthropologist writes of the “incommensurability” of the landscapes of the territory which, he will say, “determined his career”. This book published with a remark […] Read more
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