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Véronique Mortaigne, “Claude Lévi-Strauss, grand témoin de l’Année du Brésil,”
Le Monde
, February 22, 2005.
Véronique Mortaigne, “Claude Lévi-Strauss, grand témoin de l’Année du Brésil,”
Le Monde
, February 22, 2005.
55
Bertholet,
Claude Lévi-Strauss
, p. 71.
Bertholet,
Claude Lévi-Strauss
, p. 71.
56
See James A. Boon,
From Symbolism to Structuralism
(Oxford: Blackwell, 1972), p. 144.
See James A. Boon,
From Symbolism to Structuralism
(Oxford: Blackwell, 1972), p. 144.
57
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, pp. 55-56.
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, pp. 55-56.
58
Jean Maugüé,
Les Dents agacées
(Paris: Éditions Buchet/Chastel, 1982), p. 76.
Jean Maugüé,
Les Dents agacées
(Paris: Éditions Buchet/Chastel, 1982), p. 76.
59
Quoted in Thomas E. Skidmore, “Lévi-Strauss, Braudel and Brazil: A Case of Mutual Influence,”
Bulletin of Latin American Research
, vol. 22, no. 3, 2003, p. 345.
Quoted in Thomas E. Skidmore, “Lévi-Strauss, Braudel and Brazil: A Case of Mutual Influence,”
Bulletin of Latin American Research
, vol. 22, no. 3, 2003, p. 345.
60
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 21.
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 21.
61
France Antarctique was an attempt to establish a French Protestant colony in Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay in 1555. The colony collapsed in religious acrimony before being routed by the Portuguese in 1560.
France Antarctique was an attempt to establish a French Protestant colony in Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay in 1555. The colony collapsed in religious acrimony before being routed by the Portuguese in 1560.
62
Bertholet,
Claude Lévi-Strauss
, p. 100.
Bertholet,
Claude Lévi-Strauss
, p. 100.
63
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 12.
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 12.
64
Claude Lévi-Strauss,
Myth and Meaning
(London: Routledge, 2006), p. 47.
Claude Lévi-Strauss,
Myth and Meaning
(London: Routledge, 2006), p. 47.
1
Lévi-Strauss, “Postscript to Chapter XV,”
Structural Anthropology
, Claire Jacobson and Brooke Grundfest Schoepf, trans. (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968), p. 332.
Lévi-Strauss, “Postscript to Chapter XV,”
Structural Anthropology
, Claire Jacobson and Brooke Grundfest Schoepf, trans. (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968), p. 332.
2
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 75.
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 75.
3
Ibid., p. 87.
Ibid., p. 87.
4
Maugüé,
Les Dents agacées
, p. 81.
Maugüé,
Les Dents agacées
, p. 81.
5
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, pp. 77-84.
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, pp. 77-84.
6
Ibid., p. 96.
Ibid., p. 96.
7
Ibid., p. 106.
Ibid., p. 106.
8
Lévi-Strauss, interview with the author, March 2005.
Lévi-Strauss, interview with the author, March 2005.
9
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques,
Picador, p. 104.
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques,
Picador, p. 104.
10
Ibid., p. 113.
Ibid., p. 113.
11
Claude Lévi-Strauss,
Saudades de São Paulo
(São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1996), p. 18.
Claude Lévi-Strauss,
Saudades de São Paulo
(São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1996), p. 18.
12
Ibid., p. 43.
Ibid., p. 43.
13
Oscar Niemeyer,
The Curves of Time: The Memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer
(London: Phaidon, 2000), p. 62.
Oscar Niemeyer,
The Curves of Time: The Memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer
(London: Phaidon, 2000), p. 62.
14
“A Frenchman feels at home in Brazil,” wrote Louis Mouralis, a French travel writer who visited the northeast and São Paulo in the early 1930s; the “language is spoken widely; culture, assimilated unevenly but often well, is topic of conversation; customs and everyday opinions similar, with a more marked Iberian accent.” In
Brazilian Mosaic: Portraits of a Diverse People and Culture
, ed. G. Harvey Summ (Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 1995), p. 102.
“A Frenchman feels at home in Brazil,” wrote Louis Mouralis, a French travel writer who visited the northeast and São Paulo in the early 1930s; the “language is spoken widely; culture, assimilated unevenly but often well, is topic of conversation; customs and everyday opinions similar, with a more marked Iberian accent.” In
Brazilian Mosaic: Portraits of a Diverse People and Culture
, ed. G. Harvey Summ (Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 1995), p. 102.
15
Lévi-Strauss, interview with
L’Express
, trans. Peter B. Kussell, in
Diacritics
, vol. 1, no. 1, Autumn 1971, p. 45.
Lévi-Strauss, interview with
L’Express
, trans. Peter B. Kussell, in
Diacritics
, vol. 1, no. 1, Autumn 1971, p. 45.
16
Peter Fleming,
Brazilian Adventure
(London: World Books, 1940), p. 71.
Peter Fleming,
Brazilian Adventure
(London: World Books, 1940), p. 71.
17
Lévi-Strauss,
Saudades do Brasil
, p. 22.
Lévi-Strauss,
Saudades do Brasil
, p. 22.
18
Lévi-Strauss,
Saudades de São Paulo
, pp. 25, 51, 71, 80.
Lévi-Strauss,
Saudades de São Paulo
, pp. 25, 51, 71, 80.
19
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 138; Lévi-Strauss,
Saudades do Brasil
, p. 20.
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 138; Lévi-Strauss,
Saudades do Brasil
, p. 20.
20
Maugüé,
Les Dents agacées
, p. 102.
Maugüé,
Les Dents agacées
, p. 102.
21
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 23.
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 23.
22
Fournier,
Marcel Mauss
, p. 291.
Fournier,
Marcel Mauss
, p. 291.
23
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 20.
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 20.
24
Fernanda Peixoto, “Lévi-Strauss no Brasil: a formação do etnólogo,”
Mana
, vol. 4, no. 1, 1998, pp. 90-91.
Fernanda Peixoto, “Lévi-Strauss no Brasil: a formação do etnólogo,”
Mana
, vol. 4, no. 1, 1998, pp. 90-91.
25
Ibid., pp. 88-89.
Ibid., pp. 88-89.
26
Lévi-Strauss, interview with
L’ Express
, in
Diacritics
, p. 45.
Lévi-Strauss, interview with
L’ Express
, in
Diacritics
, p. 45.
27
Braudel cited in Thomas E. Skidmore, “Lévi-Strauss, Braudel and Brazil,” p. 345.
Braudel cited in Thomas E. Skidmore, “Lévi-Strauss, Braudel and Brazil,” p. 345.
28
These included Sérgio Milliet, Rubens Borba de Moraes, Paulo Duarte and Mário de Andrade.
These included Sérgio Milliet, Rubens Borba de Moraes, Paulo Duarte and Mário de Andrade.
29
Dina was also the driving force behind the founding, with Andrade, of the Ethnographic and Folklore Society.
Dina was also the driving force behind the founding, with Andrade, of the Ethnographic and Folklore Society.
30
Cited in Dorothea Voegeli Passetti,
Lévi-Strauss, Antropologia e arte: minúsculo- incomensurável
(São Paulo: Editora da Universidade de São Paulo, 2008), pp. 85, 93.
Cited in Dorothea Voegeli Passetti,
Lévi-Strauss, Antropologia e arte: minúsculo- incomensurável
(São Paulo: Editora da Universidade de São Paulo, 2008), pp. 85, 93.
31
Ibid., p. 82.
Ibid., p. 82.
32
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 150.
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 150.
33
Ibid., pp. 150-54.
Ibid., pp. 150-54.
34
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 21.
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 21.
35
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 197.
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 197.
36
Ibid., p. 200.
Ibid., p. 200.
37
Ibid., pp. 200-202.
Ibid., pp. 200-202.
38
Ibid., pp. 204-5.
Ibid., pp. 204-5.
39
Lévi-Strauss,
Saudades do Brasil
, p. 21.
Lévi-Strauss,
Saudades do Brasil
, p. 21.
40
Variously spelled Caduveu, Kaduveu, Kaduveo; I use Lévi-Strauss’s spellings for indigenous names throughout.
Variously spelled Caduveu, Kaduveu, Kaduveo; I use Lévi-Strauss’s spellings for indigenous names throughout.
41
Dina Lévi-Strauss, “
Tristes Tropiques
: Docs préparatoires 2/10, récit du voyage São Paulo-Porto Esperança par Dina Lévi-Strauss,” Archives de Lévi-Strauss, Bibliothèque nationale de France, p. 2.
Dina Lévi-Strauss, “
Tristes Tropiques
: Docs préparatoires 2/10, récit du voyage São Paulo-Porto Esperança par Dina Lévi-Strauss,” Archives de Lévi-Strauss, Bibliothèque nationale de France, p. 2.
42
Ibid., p. 1.
Ibid., p. 1.
43
Lévi-Strauss,
Oeuvres
, p. 1724.
Lévi-Strauss,
Oeuvres
, p. 1724.
44
Now a separate state, Mato Grosso do Sul.
Now a separate state, Mato Grosso do Sul.
45
Dina Lévi-Strauss, “
Tristes Tropiques
: Docs préparatoires,” p. 3.
Dina Lévi-Strauss, “
Tristes Tropiques
: Docs préparatoires,” p. 3.
46
Re: Dina’s illness, which is not mentioned in
Tristes Tropiques
, see Lévi-Strauss, “Note sur les expéditions,”
Oeuvres
, p. 1724.
Re: Dina’s illness, which is not mentioned in
Tristes Tropiques
, see Lévi-Strauss, “Note sur les expéditions,”
Oeuvres
, p. 1724.
47
Dina Lévi-Strauss, “
Tristes Tropiques
: Docs préparatoires,” p. 10.
Dina Lévi-Strauss, “
Tristes Tropiques
: Docs préparatoires,” p. 10.
48
Ibid., p. 14.
Ibid., p. 14.
49
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques,
Picador, p. 221.
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques,
Picador, p. 221.
50
Ibid., p. 239.
Ibid., p. 239.
51
“Lettres à Mário de Andrade,”
Les Temps modernes
, no. 628, August-October 2004, p. 257.
“Lettres à Mário de Andrade,”
Les Temps modernes
, no. 628, August-October 2004, p. 257.
52
Boris Wiseman,
Lévi-Strauss, Anthropology and Aesthetics
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), p. 137.
Boris Wiseman,
Lévi-Strauss, Anthropology and Aesthetics
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), p. 137.
53
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques,
Picador, pp. 216-17.
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques,
Picador, pp. 216-17.
54
Lévi-Strauss, “Le Coucher de soleil: entretien avec Boris Wiseman,”
Les Temps modernes
, no. 628, p. 4.
Lévi-Strauss, “Le Coucher de soleil: entretien avec Boris Wiseman,”
Les Temps modernes
, no. 628, p. 4.
55
Ibid., p. 275.
Ibid., p. 275.
56
Lévi-Strauss in Boutang and Chevallay,
Claude Lévi-Strauss in His Own Words
, 15:30.
Lévi-Strauss in Boutang and Chevallay,
Claude Lévi-Strauss in His Own Words
, 15:30.
57
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 278-79.
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 278-79.
58
Lévi-Strauss, interview with the author, February 2007.
Lévi-Strauss, interview with the author, February 2007.
59
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 279.
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 279.
60
Ibid., p. 283.
Ibid., p. 283.
61
See footnote in Claude Lévi-Strauss, “Contribution à l’étude de l’organisation sociale des Indiens Bororo,”
Journal de la Société des Américanistes
, vol. 28, no. 2, 1936, pp. 275-76.
See footnote in Claude Lévi-Strauss, “Contribution à l’étude de l’organisation sociale des Indiens Bororo,”
Journal de la Société des Américanistes
, vol. 28, no. 2, 1936, pp. 275-76.
62
Lévi-Strauss in Boutang and Chevallay,
Claude Lévi-Strauss in His Own Words
, 22:50.
Lévi-Strauss in Boutang and Chevallay,
Claude Lévi-Strauss in His Own Words
, 22:50.
63
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques,
Picador, p. 318.
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques,
Picador, p. 318.
64
Ibid., p. 320.
Ibid., p. 320.
65
In the documentary film
À propos de Tristes Tropiques
, by Jean-Pierre Beaurenaut, Jorge Bodanzky and Patrick Menget, L’Harmattan et Zarafa Films, 1991.
In the documentary film
À propos de Tristes Tropiques
, by Jean-Pierre Beaurenaut, Jorge Bodanzky and Patrick Menget, L’Harmattan et Zarafa Films, 1991.
66
Up until the middle of the twentieth century Mato Grosso was sometimes spelled with two
t
’s.
Up until the middle of the twentieth century Mato Grosso was sometimes spelled with two
t
’s.
67
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 21.
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 21.
68
Cited in Luís Donisete Benzi Grupioni,
Coleções e expedições vigiadas: os etnólogos no Conselho de Fiscalização das Expedições Artísticas e Científicas no Brasil
, Hucitec/ ANPOCS, 1988, p. 137.
Cited in Luís Donisete Benzi Grupioni,
Coleções e expedições vigiadas: os etnólogos no Conselho de Fiscalização das Expedições Artísticas e Científicas no Brasil
, Hucitec/ ANPOCS, 1988, p. 137.
69
Lévi-Strauss, “Contribution à l’étude de l’organisation sociale des Indiens Bororo,” pp. 269-304.
Lévi-Strauss, “Contribution à l’étude de l’organisation sociale des Indiens Bororo,” pp. 269-304.
70
Cited in Bertholet,
Claude Lévi-Strauss
, p. 95.
Cited in Bertholet,
Claude Lévi-Strauss
, p. 95.
71
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 24.
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 24.
72
Grupioni,
Coleções e expedições vigiadas
, p. 150.
Grupioni,
Coleções e expedições vigiadas
, p. 150.
73
Lévi-Strauss cited in Bertholet,
Claude Lévi-Strauss
, p. 90.
Lévi-Strauss cited in Bertholet,
Claude Lévi-Strauss
, p. 90.
74
Lévi-Strauss cited in Grupioni,
Coleções e expedições vigiadas
, p. 124.
Lévi-Strauss cited in Grupioni,
Coleções e expedições vigiadas
, p. 124.
75
Lévi-Strauss,
Saudades do Brasil
, p. 56.
Lévi-Strauss,
Saudades do Brasil
, p. 56.
76
Maugüé,
Les Dents agacées
, pp. 118-19.
Maugüé,
Les Dents agacées
, pp. 118-19.
77
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 158.
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 158.
78
Maugüé,
Les Dents agacées
, p. 121.
Maugüé,
Les Dents agacées
, p. 121.
79
Lévi-Strauss,
Boletim da Sociedade de etnografia e folclore
, no. 2, 1937, p. 5.
Lévi-Strauss,
Boletim da Sociedade de etnografia e folclore
, no. 2, 1937, p. 5.
80
Maugüé,
Les Dents agacées
, p. 121.
Maugüé,
Les Dents agacées
, p. 121.
81
Ibid., p. 111.
Ibid., p. 111.
82
Lévi-Strauss in
Le Magazine littéraire
, no. 223, October 1985, p. 20.
Lévi-Strauss in
Le Magazine littéraire
, no. 223, October 1985, p. 20.
83
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 54.
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 54.
1
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 355.
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 355.
2
Ibid., pp. 325-28.
Ibid., pp. 325-28.
3
On the extraordinary story of the building of the Rondon line, see Todd A. Diacon,
Stringing Together a Nation: Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon and the Construction of a Modern Brazil, 1906-1930
(Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004).
On the extraordinary story of the building of the Rondon line, see Todd A. Diacon,
Stringing Together a Nation: Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon and the Construction of a Modern Brazil, 1906-1930
(Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004).
4
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 357.
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 357.
5
Grupioni,
Coleções e expedições vigiadas
, pp. 142-46.
Grupioni,
Coleções e expedições vigiadas
, pp. 142-46.
6
Castro Faria interview,
Acervo Histórico de Luiz de Castro Faria
, Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins, Rio de Janeiro, 1997.
Castro Faria interview,
Acervo Histórico de Luiz de Castro Faria
, Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins, Rio de Janeiro, 1997.
7
Cited in Luiz de Castro Faria,
Um outro olhar: diário da expedição à Serra do Norte
, (Rio de Janeiro: Ouro Sobre Azul, 2001), p. 17.
Cited in Luiz de Castro Faria,
Um outro olhar: diário da expedição à Serra do Norte
, (Rio de Janeiro: Ouro Sobre Azul, 2001), p. 17.
8
In Bernardo Carvalho,
Nine Nights
, (London: Vintage Books, 2008), p. 33.
In Bernardo Carvalho,
Nine Nights
, (London: Vintage Books, 2008), p. 33.
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