Claude Lévi-Strauss

...Franz Boaz. Returning to France to complete his doctorate in the late 1940s, Levi-Strauss published a book version of his thesis, The Elementary Structures of Kinship, which drew praise in academic circles. The publication of...

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...that led to his breakthrough books. Levi-Strauss left France as a result of the anti-Jewish laws of the collaborationist Vichy regime and joined the Free French Forces during World War II. Levi-Strauss also won worldwide acclaim and...

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...books in the South American giant. Levi-Strauss left France during as a result of the anti-Jewish laws of the collaborationist Vichy regime and during World War II joined the Free French Forces. Levi-Strauss also won worldwide acclaim...

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...of the "primitive" tribes of mankind. He made it as fashionable as philosophy and poetry, both of which he wove through his ethnographical studies as perhaps only French intellectuals can. The proper study of mankind was indeed man:...

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...of 20th Century social sciences Claude Levi-Strauss, who died a few weeks short of his 101st birthday, was widely regarded as a founder of modern anthropology and one of France's foremost thinkers. He introduced structuralism to...

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