Claude Lévi-Strauss
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Language, Linguistics, Philology, Social Science
- Subcategories: Anthropology, Anthropologists
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, French History
Article abstract: Lévi-Strauss, one of the founders of structural anthropology, used his discipline to achieve insights into Western civilization by studying non-Western societies. He challenged basic Western assumptions about politics, history, and culture and became one of the major figures in the intellectual history of the twentieth century.
Early Life
Claude Lévi-Strauss was born on November 28, 1908, in Brussels, Belgium, where his French parents lived, while his father, an artist, painted. When World War I began, his parents took him home to...
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