Melancholy and alterity in brazilian Tristes Tropiques: Claude Lévi-Strauss reader of Jean de Léry

Authors

  • Amilcar Torrão Filho

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/his.v65i1.47120

Keywords:

Jean de Léry, Lévi-Strauss, Travellers, Travel Literature

Abstract

In 1955, Claude Levi-Strauss published his Tristes Tropiques, a book of “anti travel” which, however, follow the steps in the story of Jean de Lery, Histoire d’un voyage faict in the terre du Brésil, published on1578, its ethnographer’s breviary. Considered by him the first, but also the last, ethnographer, who saw a Paradise in his last moments before the destruction, Lévi-Strauss inherits from Léry his melancholic vision of the encounter between cultures.

Author Biography

Amilcar Torrão Filho

Professor do PEPG em História da PUC-SP. Líder do Grupo de Pesquisas Núcleo de Estudos da Alteridade

Published

2017-07-12

How to Cite

Torrão Filho, A. (2017). Melancholy and alterity in brazilian Tristes Tropiques: Claude Lévi-Strauss reader of Jean de Léry. História: Questões E Debates, 65(1), 413–439. https://doi.org/10.5380/his.v65i1.47120