"Melancholic Tropics" is the famous ideological autobiography of Lévi-Strauss, the master of structural anthropology, and one of the classic works in the history of anthropology. In his youth, Lévi-Strauss personally visited the Amazon River Basin and the highland forests of Brazil, searching for human society that maintained its most primitive form deep in the jungle. This book describes his interesting and profound thinking process and life experience in several of the most primitive tribes such as Kaduweo, Poroluo and Nambikwara. Lévi-Strauss uses a new path, an open vision, and keen insight, supplemented by vivid and rich imagination and delicate brushwork, to place these tribes in the context of the entire human development, proposes fascinating mutual confirmation and comparative research, and presents profound thinking on human civilization and destiny.
