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Claude Levi-Strauss: Intellectual considered the father of modern anthropology whose work inspired structuralism
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.
Lévi-Strauss's ancestors, the Strauss and the Lévi families, belonged to the long-established Jewish community in Strasbourg. Isaac Strauss, his great-grandfather, a violinist, moved to Paris and became director of the court dance orchestra at the end of Louis-Philippe's reign. Lévi-Strauss's father was a portrait painter, never very successful.
His mother, who was his father's second cousin, was the daughter of Rabbi Lévi of Strasbourg. She took refuge in the rabbi's house with her children during the First World War, and so Lév
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Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss dies at 100
Claude Levi-Strauss, widely considered the father of modern anthropology for work that included theories about commonalities between tribal and industrial societies, has died. He was 100.
The French intellectual was regarded as having reshaped the field of anthropology, introducing structuralism — concepts about common patterns of behavior and thought, especially myths, in a wide range of human societies. Defined as the search for the underlying patterns of thought in all forms of human activity, structuralism compared the formal relationships among elements in any given system.
During his six-decade career, Levi-Strauss authored literary and anthropological classics including "Tristes Tropiques" (1955), "The Savage Mind" (1963) and "The Raw and the Cooked" (1964).
Jean-Mathieu Pasqualini, chief of staff at the Academie Francaise, said an homage to Levi-Strauss was planned for Thursday, with members of the society — of which Levi
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Claude Lévi-Strauss
French anthropologist and ethnologist (1908–2009)
"Lévi-Strauss" redirects here. For the clothing manufacturer, see Levi Strauss. For other uses, see Levi Strauss (disambiguation).
Claude Lévi-Strauss (klawd LAY-vee STROWSS;[2]French:[klodlevistʁos]; 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] He held the chair of Social antropologi 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 Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. He received numerous honors from universities and institutions throughout the world.
Lévi-Strauss argued that the "savage" mind had the same structures as the "civilized" mind and that human characteristics are the same everywhere.[