Claude Lévi-Strauss
French anthropologist and ethnologist (1908–2009)
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Lévi-Strauss made structuralism the dominant lens for understanding human culture, holding court at the Collège de France for over two decades. His ideas rippled through anthropology, linguistics, and philosophy—basically everywhere intellectuals gathered to decode meaning.
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Claude Lévi-Strauss was a Belgian-born French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. He held the chair of Social Anthropology at the Collège de France between 1959 and 1982, was elected a member of the Académie française in 1973 and was a member of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. He received numerous honors from universities and institutions throughout the world.
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