Salon für kunstbuch Vienna (AT) - June2012

AHUT

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Bronislaw Malinowski(the sexual life of savages in northwestern melanesia)

STANDBEINSPIELBEIN

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ISBN 978-1-84467-416-9

The film unit of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies documenting a restricted men’s ceremony(The image has been overlain with a 21st century sensibility)

JOHNFRUM

JOHNFRUM

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Tristes Tropiques is a memoir, first published in France in 1955by the anthropologist and structuralist Claude Lévi-Strauss.It documents his travels and anthropological work, focusingprincipally on Brazil. Although ostensibly a travelogue, the workis infused with philosophical reflections and ideas linking manyacademic disciplines, such as sociology, history, and literature.

Lévi-Strauss’ reflections regarding the life of Brazilian indiansin a rapidly changing society, and the transformation in people’sperception vis-à-vis other cultures throughout the 20th centuryled us to use Tristes Tropiques as conceptual and visual point ofreference for our art project in Kunsthuis SYB, in the Frysian village of Beetsterzwaag.Thursday, September

bororo

caduveo

tupi-kawahib

nambikwara

four tribes visited by Lévi-Strauss during his travels through Central Brazil

caduveo

nambikwara

bororo

tupi-kawahib

four brasilian tribes ‘relocated’ in the Frysian village of Beetsterzwaag

Claude Lévi-Strauss - Tristes TropiquesÉditions Plon, Paris, 1955

Claude Lévi-Strauss1908-2009

The making of

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Text ‘written’ by a Nambikwara man - mimicking Claude Lévi-Strauss’ notesBrasil, 1935

Nambikwara suffering from eye inflammation, a few days after the notes written by the Nambikwara manBrasil, 1935

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