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Patrick Wilcken

Patrick Wilcken is the author of Empire Adrift: The Portuguese court in Rio de Janeiro, 1808–1821. He studied anthropology at Goldsmiths College, London University, and now works as a campaigner on the Brazil desk at Amnesty International. He lives in London.
Claude L?vi-Strauss

Books

Claude L?vi-Strauss

Rockford University students use Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Tristes Tropiques in Introduction to International Studies

By: Dr. Ron Lee, Associate Professor, Political Science; Chair, Department of Political Science, Sociology, and Criminal Justice; Director, First Year Seminar Program at Rockford University   In an age defined by its great enthusiasm for diversity, a serious concern with the differences between us requires that we advance our understanding of those differences beyond a

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Brown University students use Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Tristes Tropiques in Principles of Cultural Anthropology

By: Matthew Gutmann, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Brown University My students are hard put to recall another writer, let alone an intellectual giant like Claude Lévi-Strauss, who inveighs against the dangers of literacy, as he does in Tristes Tropiques. It is a great discussion starter. By turns travelogue and scholarly treatise on disappearing cultures

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