Aux sources de "Tristes tropiques ". Les carnets de terrain de Claude et Dina Lévi-Strauss. (1935 - 1939). Peinture " Alissa Descotes-Toyosaki is the

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

also aims to echo the various facets of the erudition of this orator

The purpose of this book is to highlight the various aspects of Japan's modernization and the internationalization of its cultural production through various artistic techniques

Derrière cette oeuvre se dissimule un artiste aussi brillant que prolifique

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