Levi Strauss (/ˈliːvaɪ ˈstraʊs/ LEE-vy STROWSS; born Löb Strauß, German: [løːp ˈʃtʁaʊs]; February 26, 1829 – September 26, 1902) was a German-born American...
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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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Levi Strauss & Co. (/ˈliːvaɪ ˈstraʊs/ LEE-vy STROWSS) is an American clothing company known worldwide for its Levi's (/ˈliːvaɪz/ LEE-vyze) brand of denim...
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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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Structuralism (section Lévi-Strauss)
literary criticism, economics, and architecture. Along with Claude Lévi-Strauss, the most prominent thinkers associated with structuralism include linguist...
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Dina Dreyfus (French: [dʁɛˈfys]), also known as Dina Levi-Strauss (French: [levi stʁos]; 1 February 1911, in Milan – 25 February 1999, in Paris), was...
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after Jan Smuts Leo Strauss (1899–1973), political philosopher Levi Strauss (disambiguation), several people, including: Levi Strauss (1829–1902), Bavaria-born...
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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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write in the language we inherit. Discussing the anthropology of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Derrida argues that we are all bricoleurs, creative thinkers who must...
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pocket rivets added by Jacob W. Davis in 1871 and patented by Davis and Levi Strauss on May 20, 1873. Prior to the patent, the term "blue jeans" had been...
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Ruehl No.925 (section Levi Strauss lawsuit)
Levi Strauss & Co. filed a lawsuit against Abercrombie & Fitch for trademark infringement, alleging that Ruehl jeans and other products used Levi's trademarked...
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Peter E. Haas, who was the great-grandnephew of Levi Strauss, the founder of denim manufacturer Levi Strauss & Co. She was born Miriam Ruchwarger in 1946...
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(Petkers) (born 1968) is an American businesswoman who serves as the CEO of Levi Strauss & Co. She previously served as CEO of department store Kohl's. Gass earned...
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Social exchange theory (section Lévi-Strauss)
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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Levi Strauss Plaza, also known as Levi Plaza or Levi's Plaza, is an office complex located in North Beach/Telegraph Hill along The Embarcadero in San Francisco...
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David Levi Strauss (born March 10, 1953, in Junction City, Kansas) is an American poet, essayist, art and cultural critic, and educator. He is the author...
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rather speak, whisper and shout excerpts from texts including Claude Lévi-Strauss' The Raw and the Cooked, Samuel Beckett's novel The Unnamable, instructions...
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(1820–1875) was an American businessman who co-founded Levi Strauss & Co. with his brother-in-law, Levi Strauss. David Stern was born to a Jewish family in the...
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Voyelles (section Claude Lévi-Strauss)
de Bouillane de Lacoste & Pierre Izambard, Robert Faurisson, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Michel Esnault, developed diverse theories on its sources and meaning...
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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, and...
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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' (1983)...
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Ralph Lauren Corporation (section Levi Strauss lawsuit)
Horse Shirts at $14.45 each, for a total of $289,000 in gross revenue. Levi Strauss & Co. filed a lawsuit against Abercrombie & Fitch and the RL Corporation...
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History of anthropology (section Claude Lévi-Strauss)
Yalman, among others, introduced French structuralism in the style of Lévi-Strauss; while British anthropology has continued to emphasize social organization...
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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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theoretical considerations, the structuralist anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss suggested that human flesh was most typically boiled, with roasting also...
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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 of...
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denim jacket is from about 1880 which was from the German businessman Levi Strauss, approximately ten years after he had invented jeans as a new type of...
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method of studying kinship relations. It finds its origins in Claude Lévi-Strauss's Elementary Structures of Kinship (1949) and is in opposition to the...
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two and his mother remarried to Peter E. Haas. He is an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune. Lurie says he grew up "most of the time in [Haas'] house." His...
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the stages in a somewhat different order. In the terminology of Claude Lévi-Strauss, the stages are the individual mythemes which are "bundled" or assembled...
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