10 Top sociology books like Tristes Tropiques by Claude Lévi-Strauss, John Weightman, Doreen Weightman

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Tristes Tropiques

By: Claude Lévi-Strauss , John Weightman , Doreen Weightman

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Tristes Tropiquesbegins with the line 'I hate travelling and explorers', yet during his life Claude…

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1. Raízes do Brasil

By: Sérgio Buarque de Holanda

4.50

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Publicada em 1936, Raizes do Brasil aborda aspectos centrais da historia da cultura brasileira. O t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology
"Nossos colonizadores eram, antes de tudo, homens que sabiam repetir o que estava feito ou o que lhes ensinara a rotina. Bem assentes no solo, não tinham exigências mentais muito grandes e o Céu parec…"

-Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, Raízes do Brasil

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2. The Society of the Spectacle

By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more

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  • history
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • sociology
"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

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3. Argonauts of the Western Pacific

By: Bronisław Malinowski

3.75

Format: 527 pages, Paperback

The founding document of economic anthropology! Bronislaw Malinowski, one of the all-time great ant… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology
  • anthropology
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4. Auto-da-Fé

By: Elias Canetti , Τζένη Μαστοράκη , C.V. Wedgwood

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

"Auto-da-Fé" is the story of Peter Kien, a distinguished, reclusive sinologist living in Vienna bet… read more

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"Since the death of his daughter, a consumptive, he had not thrashed a woman; he lived alone."

-Elias Canetti, Auto-da-Fé

"Wenn man Bücher bei sich trug, waren Handgreiflichkeiten zu vermeiden. Er trug immer Bücher bei sich."

-Elias Canetti, Auto-da-Fé

"The business friend did not recognize the sewerman, which was not surprising as the man's face was no more than a shining turd."

-Elias Canetti, Auto-da-Fé

"She was crude, but loyal. He began to understand her even better than before. A pity she was so old; it was too late to try to make a human being of her."

-Elias Canetti, Auto-da-Fé

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5. Tristes Tropiques

By: Claude Lévi-Strauss , John Weightman , Doreen Weightman

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Tristes Tropiquesbegins with the line 'I hate travelling and explorers', yet during his life Claude… read more

Similar categories in Claude Lévi-Strauss's Tristes Tropiques book and Claude Lévi-Strauss's Tristes Tropiques

  • history
  • travel
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • sociology
  • anthropology
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6. The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People

By: E.E. Evans-Pritchard

4.39

Format: None pages,

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Similar categories in E.E. Evans-Pritchard's The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People book and Claude Lévi-Strauss's Tristes Tropiques

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology
  • anthropology
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7. The Human Condition

By: Hannah Arendt , Margaret Canovan

3.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human Conditionis a in many r… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology

8. Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

By: Neil Postman

3.93

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Deat… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology
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9. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None

3.35

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology
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10. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments

By: Max Horkheimer , Theodor W. Adorno , Gunzelin Schmid Nörr , Edmund Jephcott

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dialectic of Enlightenmentis undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School o… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology
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11. America

By: Jean Baudrillard

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this, his most accessible and evocative book, France's leading philosopher of postmodernism take… read more

Similar categories in Jean Baudrillard's America book and Claude Lévi-Strauss's Tristes Tropiques

  • travel
  • philosophy
  • france
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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12. W, or the Memory of Childhood

By: Georges Perec , David Bellos

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Combining fiction and autobiography in a quite unprecedented way, Georges Perec leads the reader in… read more

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  • france
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13. Macunaima

By: Mário de Andrade , None

3.58

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Announcing a major literary event: here is the first translation into English of a landmark precurs… read more

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14. Reveries of the Solitary Walker

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Peter France

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

The struggle between Rousseau's yearning for solitude and his need for society is the central theme… read more

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15. By Night in Chile

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

3.89

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m… read more

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"…and for goodness’ sake read widely and deeply…"

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"I am dying now, but I still have many things to say."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"His falcon, called Othello, had struck terror into the heart of every pigeon in Turin..."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

16. Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

By: Hannah Arendt , Walter Benjamin , Harry Zohn

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Studies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds … read more

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17. 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

By: Jonathan Crary

4.39

Format: None pages, Hardcover

24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleepexplores some of the ruinous consequences of the expandi… read more

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18. Against Interpretation and Other Essays

By: Susan Sontag

3.28

Format: 5 pages, Paperback

First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became … read more

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19. Mythologies

By: Roland Barthes , Annette Lavers

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his pref… read more

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20. The Rings of Saturn

By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more

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21. The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance

By: Bruce Fink

4.53

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

This book presents the radically new theory of subjectivity found in the work of Jacques Lacan. Aga… read more

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