Claude Lévi-Strauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Founder of structural anthropology; author of Tristes Tropiques and The Elementary Structures of Kinship.
1908, Brussels, Belgium — 2009, Paris, France
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Claude Lévi-Strauss is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Founder of structural anthropology; author of Tristes Tropiques and The Elementary Structures of Kinship.
From an Alsatian Jewish family, Lévi-Strauss founded structural anthropology, applying linguistic structuralism to kinship, myth and culture. His works 'The Elementary Structures of Kinship' (1949) and 'Tristes Tropiques' (1955) reshaped the human sciences. He argued that universal mental structures underlie the diversity of human societies.
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Founder of structural anthropology; author of Tristes Tropiques and The Elementary Structures of Kinship.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_L%C3%A9vi-Strauss
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