As cidades de Tristes trópicos

Authors

  • José Guilherme Cantor Magnani Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0034-77011999000100007

Keywords:

city, urban anthropology, analytic categories, metropolis

Abstract

This article reviews, in Tristes Tropiques, Lévi-Strauss' observations about the theme of the city: his first impressions when he arrived in Brazil, his "Sundays ethnography" in São Paulo city, the birth of news cities in Paraná and the crowds in urban India; this last that conduced him to comparisons with the characteristics of the urban processes in the New World. Taking his reflections as an analysis exercise in an anthropological way, this article concludes suggesting some categories to think about the dynamic reality of the contemporaneous urban city.

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Published

1999-01-01

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How to Cite

Magnani, J. G. C. (1999). As cidades de Tristes trópicos. Revista De Antropologia, 42(1-2), 97-111. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0034-77011999000100007