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'''Claude Lévi-Strauss''' (28th November 1908 - 30th October 2009) was a [[France|French]] [[anthropology|anthropologist]] who applied the theory of [[structuralism]] (in [[linguistics]]) to the study of human [[culture]] and [[society]] as [[structural anthropology]]. This involves study on the relationships between members of a [[family]], rather than those family units themselves, as discussed in | '''Claude Lévi-Strauss''' (28th November 1908 - 30th October 2009) was a [[France|French]] [[anthropology|anthropologist]] who applied the theory of [[structuralism]] (in [[linguistics]]) to the study of human [[culture]] and [[society]] as [[structural anthropology]]. This involves study on the relationships between members of a [[family]], rather than those family units themselves, as discussed in a book on the elementary forms of kinship and in essays later collected in ''Structural Anthropology'' (1968). | ||
Lévi-Strauss studied at the [[University of Paris]]. He | Lévi-Strauss studied law and philosophy at the [[University of Paris]] until 1931. He then taught at the lycée in Mont-de-Marsan and in Laon. From 1935 to 1938 he is professor of sociology at the [[University of Sāo Paolo]] in [[Brazil]]. He later published a popular book, ''Tristes tropiques'', about the expeditions to central Brazil at the time and especially in 1939, after he had left the university. He then serves France as a soldier. Lévi-Strauss is able to leave France for New York in 1941, where he teaches at the [[New School for Social Research]] from 1942 to 1945. In 1946/47 he was the cultural attaché at the French embassy in the USA. He returnes to France in 1948 to work at the Musée de l'Homme. From 1950 he was at the [[Ecole Practique des Hautes Etudes]], teaching comparative religion of people without writing. He is later made Director of Studies. He leaves the ecole in 1974. From 1959 he is the Chair of [[social anthropology|Social Anthropology]] at the [[Collège de France]]. In 1973 he was made a member of the [[Acádemie française]], the official authority on the [[French language]]. | ||
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Revision as of 02:04, 1 March 2010
Claude Lévi-Strauss (28th November 1908 - 30th October 2009) was a French anthropologist who applied the theory of structuralism (in linguistics) to the study of human culture and society as structural anthropology. This involves study on the relationships between members of a family, rather than those family units themselves, as discussed in a book on the elementary forms of kinship and in essays later collected in Structural Anthropology (1968).
Lévi-Strauss studied law and philosophy at the University of Paris until 1931. He then taught at the lycée in Mont-de-Marsan and in Laon. From 1935 to 1938 he is professor of sociology at the University of Sāo Paolo in Brazil. He later published a popular book, Tristes tropiques, about the expeditions to central Brazil at the time and especially in 1939, after he had left the university. He then serves France as a soldier. Lévi-Strauss is able to leave France for New York in 1941, where he teaches at the New School for Social Research from 1942 to 1945. In 1946/47 he was the cultural attaché at the French embassy in the USA. He returnes to France in 1948 to work at the Musée de l'Homme. From 1950 he was at the Ecole Practique des Hautes Etudes, teaching comparative religion of people without writing. He is later made Director of Studies. He leaves the ecole in 1974. From 1959 he is the Chair of Social Anthropology at the Collège de France. In 1973 he was made a member of the Acádemie française, the official authority on the French language.