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'''Claude Lévi-Strauss''' (1908 - 2009) was a  Jewish-[[French]] linguist, literary critic, and anthropologist. His work was central to the development of structuralist [[philosophy]].. In 1934 Francophile Julio de Mesquita Filho invited Lévi-Strauss and [[Fernand Braudel]] to help establish a university in [[Brazil]].  

'''Claude Lévi-Strauss''' (1908 - 2009) was a  Jewish-[[French]] linguist, ethnologist, and anthropologist. His work was central to the development of structuralist [[philosophy]].. In 1934 Francophile Julio de Mesquita Filho invited Lévi-Strauss and [[Fernand Braudel]] to help establish a university in [[Brazil]].

 

Lévi-Strauss used language analysis for analytic myth criticism.

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"It would seem that mythological worlds have been built up only to be shattered again, and that new worlds were built from the fragments... [[Mythology]] confronts the student with a situation which at first sight appears contradictory. On the one hand it would seem that in the course of a myth anything is likely to happen. There is no logic, no continuity. Any characteristic can be attributed to any subject; every conceivable relation can be found. With myth, everything becomes possible. But on the other hand, this apparent arbitrariness is belied by the astounding similarity between myths collected in widely different regions. Therefore the problem: If the content of a myth is contingent, how are we going to explain the fact that myths throughout the world are so similar? [http://courses.essex.ac.uk/lt/lt204/strauss.htm]

"It would seem that mythological worlds have been built up only to be shattered again, and that new worlds were built from the fragments... [[Mythology]] confronts the student with a situation which at first sight appears contradictory. On the one hand it would seem that in the course of a myth anything is likely to happen. There is no logic, no continuity. Any characteristic can be attributed to any subject; every conceivable relation can be found. With myth, everything becomes possible. But on the other hand, this apparent arbitrariness is belied by the astounding similarity between myths collected in widely different regions. Therefore the problem: If the content of a myth is contingent, how are we going to explain the fact that myths throughout the world are so similar? [http://courses.essex.ac.uk/lt/lt204/strauss.htm]

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==See also==

==See also==