Claude Lévi-Strauss

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November 28, 1908 in Paris, France

died

October 30, 2009

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male

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Anthropology, Social Sciences, Nonfiction

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Claude Lévi-Strauss is a French anthropologist who is well-known for his development of structural anthropology. He was born on November 28, 1908 in Belgium as the son of an artist, and a member of an intellectual French Jewish family. Lévi-Strauss studied at the University of Paris. From 1935-9 he was Professor at the University of Sao Paulo making several expeditions to central Brazil. Between 1942-1945 he was Professor at the New School for Social Research. In 1950 he became Director of Studies at the Ecole Practique des Hautes Etudes. In 1959 Lévi-Strauss assumed the Chair of Social Anthroplogy at the College de France. His books include The Raw and the Cooked, The Savage Mind, Structural Anthropology and Totemism (Encyclopedia of World...more

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	Tristes Tropiques by Claude Lévi-Strauss, John Weightman (Translator), Doreen Weightman (Translator) 4.01 avg rating — 496 ratings — published 1955 — 37 editions	My rating:
	Structural Anthropology by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Claire Jacobson (Translator), Brooke Grundfest Schoepf (Translator) 3.88 avg rating — 289 ratings — published 1958 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Myth and Meaning 3.74 avg rating — 358 ratings — published 1977 — 15 editions	My rating:
	The Savage Mind by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Claude Levi-Strauss, John Weightman (Translation) 3.88 avg rating — 274 ratings — published 1962 — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Raw and the Cooked: Mythologiques, Volume 1 by Claude Lévi-Strauss, John Weightman (Translator), Doreen Weightman (Translator) 4.01 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 1964 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Totemism 3.79 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1962 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Race et histoire 3.92 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 1952 — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Elementary Structures of Kinship 3.68 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1967 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Introduction to the Work of Marcel Mauss by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Levi-Strauss 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1987 — 2 editions	My rating:
	From Honey to Ashes: Introduction to a Science of Mythology 4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1970 — 8 editions	My rating:

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Mythologiques by Claude Lévi-Strauss (4 books)
by Claude Lévi-Strauss, John Weightman (Translator), Doreen Weightman (Translator), Claude Levi-Strauss

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“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.”
― Claude Lévi-Strauss

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“I am the place in which something has occurred.”
― Claude Lévi-Strauss

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“It is only through difference that progress can be made. What threatens us right now is probably what we may call over-communication--that is, the tendency to know exactly in one point of the world what is going on in all other parts of the world. In order for a culture to be really itself and to produce something, the culture and its members must be convinced of their originality and even, to some extent, of their superiority over the others; it is only under conditions of under-communication that it can produce anything. We are now threatened with the prospect of our being only consumers, able to consume anything from any point in the world and from any culture, but of losing all originality.”
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