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| − | '''Claude Lévi-Strauss''' (1908 - 2009) was a Jewish-[[French]] anthropologist, linguist, ethnologist, and professor. He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. 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]] anthropologist, linguist, ethnologist, and professor. He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. 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]]. |
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| | Lévi-Strauss used language analysis in analytic myth criticism. | | Lévi-Strauss used language analysis in analytic myth criticism. |
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| | == Works == | | == Works == |
| − | * The Elementary Structures of Kinship (1949) | + | * ''The Elementary Structures of Kinship'' (1949) |
| − | * Tristes tropiques (1955) | + | * ''Tristes tropiques'' (1955) |
| − | * Structural Anthropology (1961, 1973) | + | * ''Structural Anthropology'' (1961, 1973) |
| − | * Mythologiques (1964 – 1971). | + | * ''Mythologiques'' (1964 – 1971) |
| − | * The Raw and the Cooked (1964) | + | * ''The Raw and the Cooked'' (1964) |
| − | * The Savage Mind (1966) | + | * ''The Savage Mind'' (1966) |
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| | == References == | | == References == |
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| | *[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/europe/04levistrauss.html Obituary] ''New York Times'', November 4, 2009. | | *[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/europe/04levistrauss.html Obituary] ''New York Times'', November 4, 2009. |
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| | [[Category:French Philosophers]] | | [[Category:French Philosophers]] |