Abstract
In Claude Lévi-Strauss’ masterpiece Tristes Tropiques, the author flatly refuses the existence of any benefit to a change of scenery, which is to say travelling. More than just a travel book, the ethnographer is thus, tasked with writing a book about travelling, and formalising the method. If Tristes Tropiques is about “real travel”, it is a question of analysing these epistemocritical goals. In other words, what kind of insights can be developed by such a “travel narrative”? And why are the tropics so sad?
| Original language | French |
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| Pages (from-to) | 182-199 |
| Journal | Multilinguales |
| Volume | vol. 8 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |