Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss (Known as "Father of Structural Anthropology")

Social Anthropologist, Ethnologist, Academician, Author of Tristes Tropiques

Born Nov 28, 1908

Brussels, Belgium

Passed Away Oct 30, 2009 Paris, France

Lifespan 100 years old

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"Le monde a commencé sans l'homme et il s'achèvera sans lui (The world began without man, and it will end without him)."

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Centenarian titan of modern thought and father of structural anthropology whose fieldwork in Brazil and masterpiece Tristes Tropiques (1955) transformed twentieth-century understanding of culture, myth, and human universality.

Biographical Record

Educated in philosophy and law at the Sorbonne, Lévi-Strauss taught sociology at the University of São Paulo in the 1930s, conducting pioneering ethnographic expeditions among indigenous Amazonian peoples (Nambikwara, Bororo, Caduveo). Fleeing anti-Jewish laws during WWII, he taught in New York alongside Roman Jakobson.

In Anthropologie structurale (1958) and his four-volume Mythologiques, he applied structural linguistics to kinship and myth, proving that so-called 'primitive' human minds possess the same complex cognitive structures as modern scientific thought. His 1955 autobiographical travelogue Tristes Tropiques famously opened: 'Je hais les voyages et les explorateurs'.

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Lignerolles Communal Cemetery (Côte-d'Or)
Lignerolles (Côte-d'Or), France

                         GPS: 47.9333, 4.8833                    

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