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May 4, 2023 · Claude Lévi-Strauss was a prominent French anthropologist who is widely regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. He is best known for developing the theory of structuralism, which revolutionized the field of anthropology and had a profound impact on other social sciences.
Nov 3, 2009 · Claude Lévi-Strauss obituary. French anthropologist whose analysis of kinship and myth gave rise to structuralism as an intellectual force. Maurice Bloch. Tue 3 Nov 2009 14.28 EST. The fame...
Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908–d. 2009) was the preeminent French anthropologist of the twentieth century and one of the most influential thinkers on the subjects of myth, culture, religion, and social organization.
structuralism, in cultural anthropology, the school of thought developed by the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, in which cultures, viewed as systems, are analyzed in terms of the structural relations among their elements.
Claude Levi-Strauss was a French social anthropologist and a leading exponent of structuralism. Often known as “the “father of modern anthropology”, he revolutionized the world of social anthropology by implementing the methods of structuralist analysis developed by Saussuro in the field of cultural relations. Advertisements.
Dec 16, 2009 · Claude Lévi-Strauss had only the slightest experience of ethnographic fieldwork, and had no formal training in anthropology. Nevertheless, his ideas transformed the discipline, and profoundly...
A French Thinker Who Crossed Continents and Cultures. “Claude Lévi-Strauss,” Patrick Wilcken’s intellectual biography of the French anthropologist, offers clear, analytical descriptions of...
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