Claude Lévi-Strauss (; 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 theory 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 Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. He received numerous honors from universities and institutions throughout the world and has been called, alongside James George Frazer and Franz Boas, the "father of modern anthropology".Lévi-Strauss argued that the "savage" mind had the same structures as the "civilized" mind and that human characteristics are the same everywhere. These observations culminated in his famous book Tristes Tropiques that established his position as one of the central figures in the structuralist school of thought. As well as sociology, his ideas reached into many fields in the humanities, including philosophy. Structuralism has been defined as "the search for the underlying patterns of thought in all forms of human activity."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
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Claude Lévi-Strauss, Klod Levi Stros, レヴィ=ストラウス, and 64 others
Claude Lévi-Straus, クロード レヴィ=ストロース, Claude Lévy- Strauss, كلود ليفي شتراوس،, ਲੇਵੀ ਸਟ੍ਰਾਸ, C. Levi-Strauss, کلود لوی-استروس, Клод Леви-Стросс, クロード・レヴィ＝ストロース, Claude Lévi Straub, Claude Gustave Lévi- Strauss, Клод Леви-Строс, Lévy-Strauss, Леви, 克勞德·李維-史陀, Lebi-Sŭtʻŭrosŭ, C. Lévi- Strauss, Klods Levī-Stross, Клод Леви- Стросс, Claude Levi-Strauss, کلۆد لێڤی-شترۆس, Стросс, 克勞德·李維史陀, ക്ലോദ് ലെവി-സ്ട്രോസ്, Claude Lévi Strauss, كلود ليفي ستروس،, Claudius Lévi-Strauss, קלוד לוי- שטראוס, Claude Gustave Lévi-Strauss, 레비스트로스, Klūd Līfī Shtrāws, Claude Lévi- Strauss, Klod Levi-Stross, Lévi-Strauss, لیوی سٹراؤس, شتراوس، كلود ليفي،, Klūd Līvī Shtrāwus, Kelaode Liwei- shituo, Kurōdo Revi-Sutorōsu, Клод Леві-Строс, Клод Леви- Строс, Klūd Strūs, ستراوس، كلود ليفي،, Κλοντ Λεβί-Στρος, Līfī Strūs Klūd, 클로드 레비스트로스, كلود ليفي ستروس, Claude Lévy-Strauss, Strauss Claude Lévy, קלוד לוי-שטראוס, लेवी स्ट्रास, Klūd Straws, Леви-Строс, 克洛德·列維-斯特勞斯, K. Levi-Stros, Klont Leví-Stros, Kilud Livī Istirus, קלוד לוי־שטראוס, Lebi-Sŭtŭrosŭ, C. Lévi-Strauss, Klod Levi-Stros, ستروس، كلود ليفي،, كلود لەۆىي-ستروس, Lebi Sŭt'ŭrosŭ - Born:
- Nov. 27, 1908
- Died:
- Oct. 29, 2009
