biography
| name: |
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
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pronunciation:
[layvee strows]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1908– )
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| biography:
| Social anthropologist, born in Brussels, Belgium. A graduate in law and philosophy, he became interested in anthropology while lecturing at São Paulo University, Brazil (1934–9). He subsequently worked in the New School for Social Research in New York City before becoming director of studies at the Ecole Pratiques des Hautes Etudes in Paris (1950–74), and professor of social anthropology at the Collège de France (1959). He has been a major influence on contemporary anthropology, establishing a new method for analyzing various collective phenomena such as kinship, ritual, and myth. His major four-volume study, Mythologiques (1964–72), studied the systematic ordering behind codes of expression in different cultures. |
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