Book Sad tropics

Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908 - 2009) – vydyushchiysya the French ethnographer, the sociologist and the culturologist, the founder of school of structuralism in ethnology, the researcher of systems of relationship, mythology and folklore. Author of such worldfamous works as: "-Race and history" - "-Structural anthropology" - "-Totemizm today" - "-the Person naked"-. For the first time in Russian full translation of the well-known book "-Sad tropics" - earlier leaving with reductions is printed. This book – the story of the eyewitness and deep reflection about destinies of the people and cultures, about the direction of development of a civilization, about those problems which and in the XXI century did not lose relevance.