人类存在是为了什么,人类应该怎样存在这样的问题一直是人类学家探索的话题。在《忧郁的热带》中,列维斯特劳斯便以自己的“旅行”、冒险和探索试图回答这样的一些问题。在这样探寻事物制度源头的野心下,田野变得尤为生动,却也充满了忧郁。当斯特劳斯的足迹遍布亚马逊河流域和巴西高地森林时,他似乎在丛林深处寻找到了最原始形态的人类社会,却又似乎依旧充满疑惑。 What human beings are for and how humankind should exist has always been a topic explored by anthropologists. In “Melancholy Tropical”, Levi Strauss attempts to answer some of these questions with his “travel”, adventure and exploration. Under this ambitious search for the source of the system of things, the fields have become more vivid and full of melancholy. While Strauss had his footprints all over the Amazon and Brazil’s highland forests, he seemed to have found the most primitive form of human society in the depths of the jungle, but it seemed as though he was still full of doubts.