 year : 2008 duration : 52' Number of the episode : 1 Number of episodes : 1 |
documentary CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS : AUPRES DE L'AMAZONIE |
In 1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss' "Tristes Tropiques" [Sad Tropics] inaugurated a new way of writing about ethnology, by combining the genres of travel logs and poetic and philosophical testimonials. In this reference book, the ethnologist recounts his first mission in the Amazon. It was an experience that turned his vision of human societies upside down. It was in 1938 that Lévi-Strauss, a young sociology professor at University of Sao Paulo at the time, headed off on an expedition to the centre of Brazil, to study the unexplored lands of the Nambikwara Indians. This documentary by Marcelo Fortaleza Flores, himself a Brazilian ethnologist, explores the path that he took, by introducing us to the heart of the modern Amazon forest. Some Indians remember Lévi-Strauss' visit to their village, while others have inherited the tales of their ancestors. Seventy years after his expedition, Claude Lévi-Strauss' thinking still contributes to studies on human relations and problems in modern societies. |