Lévi-Strauss

[ ley-vee-strous ]

noun

1. Claude, 1908–2009, French anthropologist and educator, born in Belgium: founder of structural anthropology.

Lévi-Strauss

/ levistros; ˈlɛvɪˈstraʊs /

noun

1. Lévi-StraussClaude19082009MFrenchSOCIAL SCIENCE: anthropologistWRITING: structuralist Claude (klod). (1908–2009) French anthropologist, leading exponent of structuralism. His books include The Elementary Structures of Kinship (1969), Totemism (1962), The Savage Mind (1966), Mythologies (1964–71), and Saudades do Brazil (Memories of Brazil; 1994)

Example Sentences

Animals are “good to think with,” the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss famously wrote in his book on totemism.

From Los Angeles Times

What Lévi-Strauss concluded about totems can be applied to dioramas, too.

From Los Angeles Times

“There is nothing archaic or remote about it,” Lévi-Strauss concluded about totemism.

From Los Angeles Times

Postwar America experienced a renaissance of the public intellectual, with help from the infusion of ideas of European refugees like Hannah Arendt, Claude Lévi-Strauss and Albert Einstein.

From Salon

Postwar America experienced a renaissance of the public intellectual, with help from the infusion of ideas of European refugees like Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Claude Lévi-Strauss and the greatest of them all, Albert Einstein.

From Salon