Lévi-Strauss

American  

[ley-vee-strous] / 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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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 • Sep. 4, 2024

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 anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss credited him as “the incontestable father of the structural analysis of myths.”

From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2020

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

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai