Directed by
Marcelo Fortaleza Flores
Cinematography
Sylvestre Campe
Sound
Pedro Sa Earp
Assistant director
Murat Eyuboglu
Production manager
Rafaela Vargas
Edited by
Bénédicte Mallet
Original music by
Caito Marcondes and Marlui Miranda
A production of
13 Production
with the participation of
France 5
Claude Lévi-Strauss: Auprès de l'Amazonie (2008)
Claude Lévi-Strauss (b.1908) dedicated some of the most poetic passages of his influential Tristes Tropiques (1955) to the Nambikwara Indians with whom he lived in 1938. Seventy years after, Fortaleza Flores’ film weaves past and present together through revisiting the same villages where the anthropologist lived and visiting others that have been contacted since. Interviews with Lévi-Strauss and Tito Wakalitesu (the only Nambikwara Indian who remembers the 1938 expedition), rare archival footage by Lévi-Strauss, scenes of Marechal Rondon’s expedition (1907-1915), Rio Papagaio and the Utiarity falls, along with the many aspects of the lives of Namikwara Indians present both a portrayal of today and the mutual reminisces of Lévi-Strauss and the Nambikwara. Completed in early November 2008, Claude Lévi-Strauss: Auprès de l'Amazonie was part of the events celebrating the centenary of the anthropologist at Musée du Quai Branly, Paris.
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