Claude Lévi-Strauss (/ klɔːd ˈleɪvi ˈstraʊs / klawd LAY-vee STROWSS; [3] French: [klod levi stʁos]; 28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) [4][5][6] was a Belgian-born French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. [7] He held the chair of Social Anthropology at the Collège de France between 1959 ...
Claude Levi-Strauss 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.
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.
Claude Lévi-Strauss (IPA) pronunciation [klod levi stʁos]) ( - ), was a French anthropologist who became one of the twentieth century's greatest intellectuals by developing structural anthropology as a method of understanding human society and culture. He applied his method to numerous cultural systems, notably kinship structures and mythological patterns. A ...
PARIS — After weeks crossing the high seas, Claude Levi-Strauss breathed in his first lungful of the New World, a perfume tinged with pepper or tobacco. The sensory awakening was the start of a ...
Claude Lévi-Strauss is considered the father of structural anthropology, a field which combines the methods and theories of anthropology with those of linguistics and psychoanalysis. His book Structuralism and Ecology is a seminal work in the development of this school of thought.