Claude Levi-Strauss
Known as one of the greatest intellectuals of the twentieth century, Claude Levi-Strauss, a French anthropologist, has a prominent place in the development of the theory of structural anthropology. He is regarded as one of the primary figures on which structuralism thought is based. Levi-Strauss has proven himself to be very influential throughout the United States and various parts of Europe.
Claude Levi-Strauss was born in Brussels, Belgium on November 28, 1908. He is the son of an artist and a member of a French Jewish family. From 1927 to 1932, he studied law, philosophy, and sociology at the Sorbonne in Paris. He moved to Brazil in 1935 to be a professor of Sociology at the University of Sao Paulo. During his time in Brazil, he also carried out his first ethnographic fieldwork by living among and studying various native people of the Amazon. It was this event that established his identity as an anthropologist.
In 1939, Levi-Strauss set off to......
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