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    Claude Lévi-Strauss (/klɔːd ˈleɪvi ˈstraʊs/ klawd LAY-vee STROWSS; French: [klod levi stʁos]; 28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) was a French anthropologist...
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    anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, by whose work the term structuralism first appeared in reference to social sciences. Lévi-Strauss' work in turn gave...
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  • on Lévi-Strauss's analysis of data on different kinship systems and marriage practices documented by anthropologists and historians. Lévi-Strauss called...
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  • The Raw and the Cooked (category Works by Claude Lévi-Strauss)
    anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss. It was originally published in French as Le Cru et le Cuit. Although the book is part of a larger volume, Lévi-Strauss writes...
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    have certain evident 'aesthetic' qualities. Boas' Primitive Art, Claude Lévi-Strauss' The Way of the Masks (1982) or Geertz's 'Art as Cultural System'...
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  • Tristes Tropiques (category Works by Claude Lévi-Strauss)
    published in France in 1955, by the anthropologist and structuralist Claude Lévi-Strauss. It documents his travels and anthropological work, focusing principally...
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  • their environment had everyone interconnected. In 1932 she married Claude Lévi-Strauss, who was also a French anthropologist. It can be assumed that part...
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  • Levi Strauss (1829–1902) was founder of the first company to manufacture blue jeans. Levi Strauss or Lévi-Strauss may also refer to: Claude Lévi-Strauss...
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  • anthropology, Claude Lévi-Strauss, a French anthropologist, makes the claim that "myth is language". Through analysing mythology as language, Lévi-Strauss suggests...
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  • The Savage Mind (category Works by Claude Lévi-Strauss)
    1962 work of structural anthropology by the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss. Lévi-Strauss makes clear that "la pensée sauvage" refers not to the discrete...
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    culinary triangle is a concept described by French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss involving three types of cooking: boiling, roasting, and smoking...
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  • anthropology is a school of sociocultural anthropology based on Claude Lévi-Strauss' 1949 idea that immutable deep structures exist in all cultures,...
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    Peter M. Blau (1918–2002), Richard Marc Emerson (d. 1982), and Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009). Homans defined social exchange as the exchange of activity...
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  • action depicted, as well as new names in various readings of icons. Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009), who gave the term wide circulation, wrote, "If one wants...
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  • write in the language we inherit. Discussing the anthropology of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Derrida argues that we are all bricoleurs, creative thinkers who...
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    Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist and ethnologist Dina Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist and ethnologist, wife of the above Lewis Strauss (1896–1974)...
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  • anthropology had a close relationship with studies of folklore. Above all, Claude Lévi-Strauss helped institutionalize anthropology in France. Along with the enormous...
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    structuralist movement and with figures such as Roland Barthes and Claude Lévi-Strauss, from whom he adapted the concept of bricolage. Genette was born...
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    in the "House of Windsor". The concept was originally proposed by Claude Lévi-Strauss who called them "sociétés à maison". The concept has been applied...
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    Henri de Bouillane de Lacoste & Pierre Izambard, Robert Faurisson, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Michel Esnault, developed diverse theories on its sources and...
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    George Frazer, Clifford Geertz, Edward C. Green, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Bronisław Malinowski, Margaret Mead, Elsie Clews Parsons, Pearl...
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  • manager Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908 – 2009), a French anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Rains (1889 – 1967), a British-American actor Claude McKay (1890...
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    FUNAI). Bororo's culture was closely studied by French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss during his expedition to Amazonia and Mato Grosso (1935–1936), described...
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  • Mythologiques (category Works by Claude Lévi-Strauss)
    Mythologiques is a four-volume work of cultural anthropology by Claude Lévi-Strauss. Originally written in French, the works were translated into English...
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    intellectuals and scientists, including André Malraux, André Breton, and Claude Lévi-Strauss, had called for a single and important museum in Paris dedicated...
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    diverse as Julian Huxley, C. H. Waddington, Alan Turing, René Thom, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Eduardo Paolozzi, Le Corbusier, Christopher Alexander and Mies van...
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  • especially when single families became larger political groups. Claude Lévi-Strauss introduced the "Alliance Theory" of exogamy, that is, that small...
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  • theories by prominent authors such as Claude Lévi-Strauss, Sir Edward Tylor, and Lewis Henry Morgan. Lévi-Strauss viewed cross-cousin marriage as a form...
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    structuralist method of studying kinship relations. It finds its origins in Claude Lévi-Strauss's Elementary Structures of Kinship (1949) and is in opposition to...
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  • thinkers as A. J. Greimas, Northrop Frye, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Claude Lévi-Strauss. Jameson's interpretive framework, including his post-Lacanian idea...
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