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Claude Lévi-Strauss
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French anthropologist and ethnologist (1908–2009)
Claude Lévi-Strauss was a French anthropologist and ethnologist who revolutionized how scholars study human cultures by analyzing the hidden structures and patterns underlying myths, kinship systems, and social practices. His work, which emphasized that seemingly different cultures often operate according to similar underlying logical rules, became foundational to the academic field of structuralism and influenced how we understand human societies across the world.
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Claude Lévi-Strauss (28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist, born in Belgium to French-Jewish parents living in Bruxelles, 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…
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- The Lévi-Strauss Century — Self (archive footage)2016
- O Brasil, Os Índios e, Finalmente, A USP — Self1988
- In Search of Identity1980
- Apostrophes — Self1975
- Une approche de Claude Lévi-Strauss1974
- Behind the Masks — Self1973
- Somewhere, Someone1972
- Aldeia de Nalike — Self1936
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- human
- Given name
- Claude
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Belgium
- Place of birth
- Brussels
- Place of death
- 16th arrondissement of Paris
- Occupation
- researcher
- Educated at
- Lycée Janson-de-Sailly
- Employer
- École pratique des hautes études
- Political party
- French Section of the Workers' International
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
- Religion
- Judaism
- Doctoral student
- Pierre Clastres
- Field of work
- structuralism
- Image
- Levi-strauss 260 (cropped2).jpg
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- influenced by
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Commons category
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- manner of death
- natural causes
- date of birth
- 1908-11-28
- date of death
- 2009-10-30
- member of
- American Philosophical Society
- name in native language
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- student
- Georges Mink
- place of burial
- Lignerolles
- subject has role
- centenarian
- ethnic group
- Jewish people
- floruit
- 1935-01-01
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- P8168
- Olav Thon
- birth name
- Gustave Claude Levi-Strauss
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