Lévi-Strauss

American  

[lay-vee-straus] / ˈleɪ viˈstraʊs /

noun

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

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Lévi-Strauss British  

/ levistros, ˈlɛvɪˈstraʊs /

noun

1. 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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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

A vocal group, originally the Swingle Singers, sings and/or speaks phonemes and texts from the likes of Samuel Beckett and Claude Lévi-Strauss.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2018

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

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin

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