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Claude Lévi-Strauss

Born

in Brussels, Belgium

November 28, 1908

Died

October 30, 2009

Genre

Anthropology, Social Sciences

Influences

Karl Marx, Émile Durkheim, Ferdinand de Saussure, Sigmund Freud, Georg ...more

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Claude Lévi-Strauss was a French anthropologist, well-known for his development of structural anthropology. He was born in Belgium to French parents who were living in Brussels at the time, but he grew up in Paris. His father was 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, ...more

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	Tristes Tropiques by Claude Lévi-Strauss, John Weightman, Doreen Weightman (Translator) 4.14 avg rating — 4,346 ratings — published 1955 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture 3.75 avg rating — 2,645 ratings — published 1978 — 81 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Savage Mind 3.93 avg rating — 1,800 ratings — published 1962 — 90 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Race et histoire 3.83 avg rating — 1,774 ratings — published 1952 — 73 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Structural Anthropology 3.93 avg rating — 1,720 ratings — published 1958	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jane Marie Todd (Translation), Maurice Olender (Foreword) 3.76 avg rating — 541 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Are All Cannibals: And Other Essays (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) 3.84 avg rating — 425 ratings — published 2013 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Totemism 3.72 avg rating — 417 ratings — published 1962	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Raw and the Cooked (Mythologiques, Vol 1) by Claude Lévi-Strauss, John Weightman (Translator), Doreen Weightman (Translator) 4.02 avg rating — 374 ratings — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Elementary Structures of Kinship 3.85 avg rating — 262 ratings — published 1947 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Claude Lévi-Strauss

Mythologiques (4 books)
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Doreen Weightman (Translator)

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Quotes by Claude Lévi-Strauss (?)

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

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

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