Claude Lévi-Strauss

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anthropologist ethnologist human structuralist thinker university professor

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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Grand Croix de la Légion d'honneur ⓘ
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Ordre national du Mérite ⓘ
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Nonino Prize ⓘ
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dateOfBirth 1908-11-28 ⓘ
dateOfDeath 2009-10-30 ⓘ
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La Sorbonne ⓘ
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Panthéon-Sorbonne University ⓘ
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École pratique des hautes études ⓘ
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linguistic anthropology ⓘ
mythology ⓘ
social anthropology ⓘ
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influenced Jacques Derrida ⓘ
Michel Foucault ⓘ
Roland Barthes ⓘ
structural anthropology ⓘ
influencedBy Ferdinand de Saussure ⓘ
Marcel Mauss ⓘ
Émile Durkheim ⓘ
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Collège de France ⓘ
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binary oppositions in culture ⓘ
structural analysis of myth ⓘ
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Structural Anthropology ⓘ
The Elementary Structures of Kinship ⓘ
The Savage Mind ⓘ
Tristes Tropiques ⓘ
occupation anthropologist ⓘ
ethnologist ⓘ
philosopher ⓘ
university teacher ⓘ
placeOfBirth Belgium ⓘ
Brussels, Belgium ⓘ
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Paris ⓘ
positionHeld chair of social anthropology at Collège de France ⓘ
professor at Collège de France ⓘ
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