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

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

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

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

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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.

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