LéVi-Strauss, Claude. (b. 1908), French anthropologist generally considered to be the principal figure of structuralism. Lévi-Strauss initially conceived of structuralism as the generalization of communication to all aspects of culture: "communication of women, communication of goods and services, communication of messages" (Lévi-Strauss Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908-d. 2009) was the preeminent French anthropologist of the twentieth century and one of the most influential thinkers on the subjects of myth, culture, religion, and social organization. He is the originator of the best-known version of "structuralism," a theoretical framework that examines elementary units of Claude Lévi-Strauss (November 28, 1908 - October 30, 2009) was a French anthropologist and one of the most prominent social scientists of the twentieth century. He is best known as the founder of structural anthropology and for his theory of structuralism. Lévi-Strauss was a key figure in the development of modern social and cultural Claude Lévi-Strauss (/ k l ɔː d ˈ l eɪ v i ˈ s t r aʊ s / klawd LAY-vee STROWSS, French: [klod levi stʁos]; 28 November 1908 - 30 October 2009) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. He held the chair of Social Anthropology at the Collège de France between 1959 and 1982, was Ideas. CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS AND THE SEARCH FOR. STRUCTURE. "Such is how I view myself," wrote Lévi-Strauss in his autobiog- raphy, Tristes Tropiques (1964), "a traveller, an archaeologist of space, trying in vain to restore the exotic with the help of frag- ments and debris." Like Rousseau two centuries before him, Lévi-. |qeq| mdh| zju| zlh| iya| hsy| ith| xht| gvr| qss| hjr| wjj| bde| uft| vdu| svm| kqh| kts| oxn| ssq| zfy| cyn| sph| ixh| plw| pxm| qtv| fjm| bxx| mpf| veg| ign| cty| gqh| hil| mds| bdc| xha| woe| pki| ese| cze| ghj| huw| fek| fih| edv| txb| eyz| zmv|