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Claude Lévi-Strauss (/ k l ɔː d ˈ l eɪ v i ˈ s t r aʊ s / klawd LAY-vee STROWSS, French: [klod levi stʁos]; 28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology.
- Dina
The couple Lévi-Strauss separated in 1939, and divorced at...
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Tristes Tropiques (the French title translates literally as...
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In structural anthropology, Claude Lévi-Strauss, a French...
- The Raw and the Cooked
The Raw and the Cooked (1964) is the first volume from...
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Mar 21, 2024 · Claude Lévi-Strauss (born November 28, 1908, Brussels, Belgium—died October 30, 2009, Paris, France) was a French social anthropologist and leading exponent of structuralism, a name applied to the analysis of cultural systems (e.g., kinship and mythical systems) in terms of the structural relations among their elements.
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Jan 27, 2020 · Claude Lévi-Strauss (November 28, 1908 – October 30, 2009) was a French anthropologist and one of the most prominent social scientists of the twentieth century. He is best known as the founder of structural anthropology and for his theory of structuralism.
