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    Claude Lévi-StraussFrench anthropologist
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    • Claude Lévi-Strauss was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. He held the chair of Social Anthropology at the Collège de France between 1959 and 1982, was elected a member of the Académie française in 1973 and was a member of the School for Advanc… See more

    Born28 November 1908 · Brussels, Belgium
    Died30 October 2009 (aged 100) · Paris, France
    EducationUniversity of Paris (DrE, 1948)
    SpousesDina Dreyfus · (m. 1932, divorced) · Rose Marie Ullmo · (m. 1946; div. 1954) · Monique Roman (m. 1954)
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    Gustave Claude Lévi-Strauss was born in 1908 to French-Jewish (turned agnostic) parents who were living in Brussels, where his father was working as a portrait painter at the time. He grew up in Paris, living on a street of th… See more

    Career and development of structural anthropology

    The Elementary Structures of Kinship was published in 1949 and quickly came to be regarded as one of the most important anthropological works on kinship. It was even reviewed favorably by Simone de Beauvoir, … See more

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  1. Claude Lévi-Strauss
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    Claude Lévi-Strauss (/ klɔːd ˈleɪvi ˈstraʊs / 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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Claude Lévi-Strauss was the most famous anthropologist of his generation, and one of the leading intellectuals in post-war France. His writings inspired a major intellectual movement, and at least two of his books have already become classics of French literature. He was largely responsible for the development of social anthropology in France.

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    When did Lévi-Strauss become a anthropologist?
    Lévi-Strauss was named to a chair in social anthropology at the Collège de France in 1959. At roughly the same time he published Structural Anthropology, a collection of his essays that provided both examples and programmatic statements about structuralism.

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    How did Claude Lévi-Strauss Change Anthropology?
    Getty Images BEFORE Claude Lévi-Strauss revolutionised the discipline, anthropology in France, and generally elsewhere, was a matter of ill-attended lectures in small, cold halls, and the collection of feathers and fish-hooks as evidence of the quaint divergences of the “primitive” tribes of mankind.

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    Who is Claude Lévi-Strauss?
    Claude Lévi-Strauss (/ klɔːdˈleɪviˈstraʊs / klawd LAY-vee STROWSS; [ 2 ]French: [klod levi stʁos]; 28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) [ 3 ][ 4 ][ 5 ] was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. [ 6 ]

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    What does Lévi-Strauss say about anthropology?
    Drawing on postcolonial approaches to anthropology, Timothy Laurie has suggested that "Lévi-Strauss speaks from the vantage point of a State intent on securing knowledge for the purposes of, as he himself would often claim, salvaging local cultures...but the salvation workers also ascribe to themselves legitimacy and authority in the process."

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    How did Claude Lévi-Strauss contribute to structuralism?
    It was against this backdrop that Claude Lévi-Strauss developed his theory of structuralism. One major influence on Lévi-Strauss’s thinking was the work of linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, who argued that language is a system of signs governed by underlying rules and structures.

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    What was Lévi-Strauss's goal in structural anthropology?
    The goal of Lévi-Strauss's structural anthropology, then, was to simplify the masses of empirical data into generalized, comprehensible relations between units, which allow for predictive laws to be identified, such as A is to B as C is to D. [ 34 ] Lévi-Strauss's theory is set forth in Structural Anthropology (1958).

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  5. ThoughtCo
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  6. Collège de France
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