%0 Journal Article %T L¨¦vi-Strauss et les deux Am¨¦riques I- L¡¯Am¨¦rique du Sud, en vertu de l¡¯Am¨¦rique du Nord %A Emmanuel D¨¦sveaux %J Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos %D 2009 %I CERMA %R 10.4000/nuevomundo.56962 %X Si l¡¯int¨¦rieur de l¡¯Am¨¦rique du sud et les ann¨¦es trente servent de cadre ¨¤ Tristes Tropiques, en r¨¦alit¨¦ le livre est r¨¦dig¨¦ avec un double d¨¦calage dans le temps et dans l¡¯espace. Dans le temps, car la Seconde Guerre Mondiale intervenue entre le moment des explorations br¨¦siliennes et leur narration a boulevers¨¦ la perspective que L¨¦vi-Strauss, rescap¨¦ des pers¨¦cutions nazies, a pu avoir de l¡¯histoire en g¨¦n¨¦ral et de son propre destin en particulier. Dans l¡¯espace, car l¡¯Am¨¦rique du Nord, lieu de son exil, sert de miroir cach¨¦ ¨¤ ses r¨¦flexions sur le colonialisme, la qu¨ºte de l¡¯alt¨¦rit¨¦ ethnologique et finalement l¡¯histoire If South America¡¯s interior and the thirties are used as the setting of Tristes Tropiques, in reality the book was drafted with a double gap in time and space. In time, because the Second World War which intervened between the Brazilian explorations and their narration upset the perspective that L¨¦vi-Strauss, survivor of the Nazi persecutions, has had of history generally and of his own fate in particular. In space because North America, his place of exile, serves as a hidden mirror of his reflections on colonialism, the quest of ethnological otherness and finally history %K Brazil %K United States %K L¨¦vi-Strauss %K Ethnography %K Anthropology %K American Indians %K Amazonia %K XXth Century %K Amazonie %K Anthropologie %K Br¨¦sil %K L¨¦vi-Strauss %K XXe si¨¨cle %K Am¨¦rindiens %K Ethnographie %K ¨¦tats-Unis %U http://nuevomundo.revues.org/56962