Lévi-Strauss

American

[ley-vee-strous] / ˈleɪ viˈstraʊs /

noun

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

Lévi-Strauss British

/ levistros, ˈlɛvɪˈstraʊs /

noun

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)

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We know about the voyage of SS Capitaine Paul-Lemerle primarily from the opening chapters of anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss classic “Tristes Tropiques.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2025

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 • Aug. 5, 2023

Shamanic rituals have parallels with psychotherapy, anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss noted; shamans, like therapists, help people gain insight into themselves and their relationships with others.

From Scientific American • May 23, 2022

“The cooking of a society is a language in which it unconsciously translates its structure,” the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss wrote in 1966.

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2022

Claude Lévi-Strauss, among others, forcefully dealt with this subject.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai

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