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  • One of the major goals of the Copenhagen climate summit is another NIEO shakedown: the transfer of hundreds of billions from the industrial West to the Third World to save the planet by, for example, planting green industries in the tristes tropiques ….

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Copenhagen as Income Redistribution 2009

  • This passage from the last pages of Tristes tropiques articulates the dream of a direct communication and reconciliation between West and East, Christianity and Buddhism, male and female principles.

    Claude Lévi-Strauss at 100 2008

  • This passage from the last pages of Tristes tropiques articulates the dream of a direct communication and reconciliation between West and East, Christianity and Buddhism, male and female principles.

    Vitro Nasu » 2008 » November 2008

  • Kabila's party, while the opposition La tempete des tropiques headlined: "78.47 percent yes and 21.03 percent no", adding: "No province rejected the draft constitution according to partial CEI results."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • Tropical paradise or the tristes tropiques of Claude Lévi-Strauss, who arrived in Rio de Janeiro in 1934 with a copy of Léry in his pocket only to discover that all too few remnants of the Garden of Eden had in fact survived?

    Snakes in Paradise Elliott, J.H. 2003

  • Le ferrociment n'est pas attaqu par les tarets, la pourriture du bois et autres flaux des tropiques; de plus, les bateaux en ferrociment ont une rsistance inhrente suffisante pour pouvoir tre quips d'un moteur; certaines embarcations analogues, en bois, ne vent pas assez rsistantes pour cela.

    Chapter 13 1973

  • These are Tristes tropiques (1955) and La pensée sauvage

    STRUCTURALISM PETER CAWS 1968

  • One of the major goals of the Copenhagen climate summit is another NIEO shakedown: the transfer of hundreds of billions from the industrial West to the Third World to save the planet by, for example, planting green industries in the tristes tropiques.

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2010

  • One of the major goals of the Copenhagen climate summit is another NIEO shakedown: the transfer of hundreds of billions from the industrial West to the Third World to save the planet by, for example, planting green industries in the tristes tropiques.

    The Redhunter 2009

  • One of the major goals of the Copenhagen climate summit is another NIEO shakedown: the transfer of hundreds of billions from the industrial West to the Third World to save the planet by, for example, planting green industries in the tristes tropiques.

    The Seattle Times 2009

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