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Tristes Tropiques' by Claude Levi-Strauss Mankind has opted for monoculture From early in the book, perhaps from the introduction. I don’t recall precisely. Chapter 9 The ground that his observations cover is truly remarkable. In chapter 9, Guanabara, he goes from travelogue to France’s early colonial history in Brazil to urban design over the course of only a few paragraphs. He speaks of the way that places have ceased to shock and surprise in the way they once did before the sustained contact between colonial and native cultures....