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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Belgium in 1908, Lévi-Strauss came to anthropology through fieldwork that led him away from European certainties. His 1955 book Tristes Tropiques made the case plainly: the "savage" mind and the "civilized" mind operate on identical principles, hunting for pattern and order in myth, kinship, and symbol. That insight became the backbone of structural anthropology. He held the chair of Social Anthropology at the Collège de France from 1959 to 1982, entered the Académie française in 1973, and collected honors across continents. He died in Paris in 2009, a month shy of 101, having spent a century watching structuralism reshape the humanities and then recede, his central claim still standing.