Claude Lévi-Strauss

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Claude Lévi-Strauss was a pioneering French anthropologist and ethnologist whose structuralist analyses of myth and culture profoundly shaped 20th-century social theory.

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Claude Lévi-Strauss canonical 30
Claude Levi-Strauss 1
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Predicate Object
instanceOf anthropologist
ethnologist
human
structuralist thinker
university professor
awardReceived Erasmus Prize
Grand Croix de la Légion d'honneur
surface form: Grand-croix of the Légion d'honneur

Ordre national du Mérite
surface form: Grand-croix of the Ordre national du Mérite

Nonino Prize
surface form: International Nonino Prize
countryOfCitizenship France
dateOfBirth 1908-11-28
dateOfDeath 2009-10-30
educatedAt Lycée Janson-de-Sailly
La Sorbonne
surface form: Sorbonne

Panthéon-Sorbonne University
surface form: University of Paris
employer Collège de France
École pratique des hautes études
familyName Claude Lévi-Strauss self-linksurface differs
surface form: Lévi-Strauss
fieldOfWork ethnology
linguistic anthropology
mythology
social anthropology
fullName Claude Lévi-Strauss self-link
givenName Claude
influenced Jacques Derrida
Michel Foucault
Roland Barthes
structural anthropology
influencedBy Ferdinand de Saussure
Marcel Mauss
Émile Durkheim
languageOfWorkOrName French
memberOf Académie française
Collège de France
movement structuralism
nativeLanguage French
notableIdea application of structuralism to anthropology
binary oppositions in culture
structural analysis of myth
notableWork Mythologiques
Structural Anthropology
The Elementary Structures of Kinship
The Savage Mind
Tristes Tropiques
occupation anthropologist
ethnologist
philosopher
university teacher
placeOfBirth Belgium
Brussels, Belgium
surface form: Brussels
placeOfDeath France
Paris
positionHeld chair of social anthropology at Collège de France
professor at Collège de France
religion atheism
sexOrGender male

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Description of subject: Claude Lévi-Strauss was a pioneering French anthropologist and ethnologist whose structuralist analyses of myth and culture profoundly shaped 20th-century social theory.

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Humboldt University of Berlin hasNotableAlumni Claude Lévi-Strauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss fullName Claude Lévi-Strauss self-link
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this entity surface form: Lévi-Strauss
Émile Durkheim influenced Claude Lévi-Strauss
Collège de France hasNotableProfessor Claude Lévi-Strauss
Nonino Prize notableRecipient Claude Lévi-Strauss
Outline of a Theory of Practice influencedBy Claude Lévi-Strauss
Roman Jakobson coAuthor Claude Lévi-Strauss
Roman Jakobson influenced Claude Lévi-Strauss
Lycée Condorcet hasAlumni Claude Lévi-Strauss
Huxley Memorial Medal notableRecipient Claude Lévi-Strauss
Paul Rabinow influencedBy Claude Lévi-Strauss
Of Grammatology influencedBy Claude Lévi-Strauss
Tristes Tropiques author Claude Lévi-Strauss
The Savage Mind author Claude Lévi-Strauss
Structural Anthropology author Claude Lévi-Strauss
Structural Anthropology author Claude Lévi-Strauss
this entity surface form: Claude Levi-Strauss
Mythologiques author Claude Lévi-Strauss
Mythologiques author Claude Lévi-Strauss
subject surface form: Le Cru et le Cuit
Mythologiques author Claude Lévi-Strauss
subject surface form: Du miel aux cendres
Mythologiques author Claude Lévi-Strauss
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Mythologiques author Claude Lévi-Strauss
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The Elementary Structures of Kinship author Claude Lévi-Strauss
Erasmus Prize notableLaureate Claude Lévi-Strauss
Ferdinand de Saussure influenced Claude Lévi-Strauss
Roland Barthes influencedBy Claude Lévi-Strauss
Marcel Mauss influenced Claude Lévi-Strauss
Jacques Lacan influencedBy Claude Lévi-Strauss
Farrar, Straus and Giroux hasPublished Claude Lévi-Strauss
Collège royal hasNotableProfessor Claude Lévi-Strauss
Bororo people notableResearcher Claude Lévi-Strauss