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Los horizontes más vastos del mundo

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Brasil representa la experiencia más importante de mi vida, a la vez, por el alejamiento, el contraste, pero también porque determinó mi carrera". En 1935 un joven Claude Lévi-Strauss partió hacia Brasil para escapar de una carrera rutinaria como académico en Francia. En esa estadía, que se extendió hasta 1939, se desempeñó como profesor de sociología en la Universidad de San Pablo. Y ahí, con la curiosidad que lo caracterizaría toda su vida, descubrió la antropología, los estudios americanistas, a los poetas modernistas y a los pueblos indígenas. Las consecuencias de esa travesía son sólido en sus investigaciones etnográficas, en particular sobre los caduveo, los bororo y los nambikwara, Lévi-Strauss se lanzó a una aventura que tuvo como resultado algunas de sus obras más importantes y significativas, con Tristes trópicos como su relato definitivo acerca de sus experiencias en Brasil. Este volumen incluye textos de ese período de efervescencia, que aparecieron en revistas, periódicos brasileños o estuvieron olvidados en cajones durante años, y que hasta ahora nunca se habían publicado en un libro. Además, contiene numerosos documentos iconográficos y recupera el estudio de cinco películas etnográficas que filmó junto a su primera esposa, Dina Dreyfus. Los horizontes más vastos del mundo ofrece un panorama fascinante de los años de formación de una de las figuras intelectuales más importantes del siglo XX.

290 pages, Paperback

Published September 1, 2026

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Claude Lévi-Strauss

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Claude Lévi-Strauss was a French anthropologist, well-known for his development of structural anthropology. He was born in Belgium to French parents who were living in Brussels at the time, but he grew up in Paris. His father was an artist, and a member of an intellectual French Jewish family. Lévi-Strauss studied at the University of Paris. From 1935-9 he was Professor at the University of Sao Paulo making several expeditions to central Brazil. Between 1942-1945 he was Professor at the New School for Social Research. In 1950 he became Director of Studies at the Ecole Practique des Hautes Etudes. In 1959 Lévi-Strauss assumed the Chair of Social Anthroplogy at the College de France. His books include The Raw and the Cooked, The Savage Mind, Structural Anthropology and Totemism (Encyclopedia of World Biography).

Some of the reasons for his popularity are in his rejection of history and humanism, in his refusal to see Western civilization as privileged and unique, in his emphasis on form over content and in his insistence that the savage mind is equal to the civilized mind.

Lévi-Strauss did many things in his life including studying Law and Philosophy. He also did considerable reading among literary masterpieces, and was deeply immersed in classical and contemporary music.

Lévi-Strauss was awarded the Wenner-Gren Foundation's Viking Fund Medal for 1966 and the Erasmus Prize in 1975. He was also awarded four honorary degrees from Oxford, Yale, Havard and Columbia. Strauss held several memberships in institutions including the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society (Encyclopedia of World Biography).

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