Aux sources de "Tristes tropiques ". Les carnets de terrain de Claude et Dina Lévi-Strauss. (1935 - 1939). Peinture remarkable for the richness of

remarkable for the richness of its iconography

A beautiful reflection echoing the photographs

It was precisely this aspect of the god that strongly influenced both the shape and the decoration of the naos

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

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 remarkable for the richness of"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: