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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Claude Lévi-Strauss''' was a French anthropologist and ethnologist who is regarded as the founder of the structural anthropology. He was one of the most influential of the social scientists of the twentieth century.<br />
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== Early Life and Education ==<br />
Lévi-Strauss was born in 1908 in Brussels and grew up in Paris. He studied law and philosophy at the Sorbonne.<br />
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He taught at the University of São Paulo and conducted the fieldwork in Brazil. He studied the indigenous peoples of the Amazon.<br />
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He was the visiting professor at the New School for Social Research in New York. He was influenced by the structural linguistics of Roman Jakobson.<br />
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== The Structural Anthropology ==<br />
Lévi-Strauss published the book The Elementary Structures of Kinship in 1949. The work studies the systems of the kinship and the marriage.<br />
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He applied the methods of the structural linguistics to the study of the culture. The method seeks the underlying structures of the human mind.<br />
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He published the book Tristes Tropiques in 1955. The book is the memoir and the reflection on the work of the anthropologist.<br />
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He published the four volumes of the Mythologiques between 1964 and 1971. The work studies the myths of the Americas and their common structures.<br />
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== The Theory and the Ideas ==<br />
Lévi-Strauss argued that the human mind operates through the binary oppositions. The structures of the myth reflect the structures of the mind.<br />
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He developed the concept of the bricolage. The concept describes the way in which the myths are constructed from the available cultural elements.<br />
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He criticised the notion of the primitive and the civilised. He argued for the equality of the human minds across the cultures.<br />
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He was the leading figure of the structuralism in the social sciences. The movement influenced the philosophy and the literary theory.<br />
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== The Legacy ==<br />
Lévi-Strauss was elected to the Académie française in 1973. He received the honours from the institutions throughout the world.<br />
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He died in 2009 in Paris at the age of one hundred. He was one of the most influential of the anthropologists of the century.<br />
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His work transformed the study of the anthropology and the mythology. The structural method has been applied to the many fields.<br />
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He is regarded as the founder of the structural anthropology. His work continues to be studied and debated.<br />
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== The Structural Anthropology ==<br />
Lévi-Strauss published The Elementary Structures of Kinship in 1949. The work studies the systems of the kinship.<br />
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He applied the methods of the structural linguistics to the culture. The method seeks the underlying structures.<br />
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He was the leading figure of the structuralism in the social sciences.<br />
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== The Tristes Tropiques ==<br />
Lévi-Strauss published Tristes Tropiques in 1955. The book is the memoir and the reflection on the work.<br />
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The book describes the fieldwork in Brazil. It is regarded as one of the greatest of the anthropological works.<br />
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The book established his reputation with the general public.<br />
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== The Mythology ==<br />
Lévi-Strauss published the four volumes of the Mythologiques. The work studies the myths of the Americas.<br />
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He argued that the myths share the common structures. The structures reflect the structures of the human mind.<br />
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He developed the concept of the bricolage.<br />
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== The Theory ==<br />
Lévi-Strauss argued that the mind operates through the binary oppositions. The structures of the myth reflect the mind.<br />
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He criticised the notion of the primitive and the civilised. He argued for the equality of the human minds.<br />
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He was influenced by the linguistics of Roman Jakobson.<br />
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== The Career ==<br />
Lévi-Strauss taught at the University of São Paulo and the Collège de France. He conducted the fieldwork in Brazil.<br />
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He was elected to the Académie française in 1973. He received the honours from the institutions throughout the world.<br />
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He was one of the most influential of the anthropologists.<br />
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== The Legacy ==<br />
Lévi-Strauss died in 2009 in Paris at the age of one hundred. He was one of the most influential of the social scientists.<br />
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His work transformed the study of the anthropology and the mythology. The structural method has been applied to the many fields.<br />
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He is regarded as the founder of the structural anthropology.<br />
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== The Personal Life ==<br />
Lévi-Strauss married Dina Dreyfus in 1932 and later Monique Roman. He had two sons.<br />
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He was a cultivated man with the interest in the music and the art. He was also a gifted writer.<br />
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He died in 2009 in Paris at the age of one hundred.<br />
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== The Influence ==<br />
Lévi-Strauss was one of the most influential of the social scientists. The structural method has been applied to the many fields.<br />
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He transformed the study of the anthropology and the mythology. The work continues to be studied and debated.<br />
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He was the leading figure of the structuralist movement.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* Structuralism<br />
* Anthropology<br />
* Mythology<br />
* Kinship<br />
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== References ==<br />
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<ref name="r1">Lévi-Strauss, Claude. Tristes Tropiques. Paris: Plon, 1955.</ref><br />
<ref name="r2">Lévi-Strauss, Claude. Structural Anthropology. New York: Basic Books, 1963.</ref><br />
<ref name="r3">Lévi-Strauss, Claude. The Raw and the Cooked. New York: Harper and Row, 1969.</ref><br />
<ref name="r4">Wilcken, Patrick. Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory. New York: Penguin, 2010.</ref><br />
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