Lévi-Strauss
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/ ˈleɪ viˈstraʊs /
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noun
Claude, 1908–2009, French anthropologist and educator, born in Belgium: founder of structural anthropology.
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The anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss saw the Amazon rainforest, as he saw most things, as a complex structure.
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As former U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia Joseph Mussomeli put it, "Levi Strauss or the Gap could destroy this country on a whim."
British Dictionary definitions for Lévi-Strauss
Lévi-Strauss
/ (ˈlɛvɪˈstraʊs, French levistros) /
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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