Claude Lévi-Strauss

Person · Open Library

Born

28 Nov 1908

Died

30 Oct 2009

Works

330

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

France

Active from

1908-11-28

Active to

2009-10-30

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

57

Total plays

161

Claude Lévi-Strauss (pronounced klod levi stʁos; November 28, 1908 – 30 October, 2009) was a French anthropologist who developed structuralism as a method of understanding human society and culture. Outside anthropology, his works have had a large influence on contemporary thought, in particular on the practice of structuralism. Lévi-Strauss is a reference for authors such as Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, and Judith Butler. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Claude+L%C3%A9vi-Strauss">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Teleporting an unknown quantum state via dual classical and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen channels

   · 1993 · cited 12,006x

2. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

   · 2016 · cited 11,704x

3. APE: Analyses of Phylogenetics and Evolution in R language

   · 2004 · cited 10,958x

4. Basics of Qualitative Research (3rd ed.): Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory

   · 2008 · cited 9,147x

5. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary

   · 2000 · cited 8,922x

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Quotes

• “The entire village left the next day in about thirty canoes, leaving us alone with the women and children in the abandoned houses. [Le village entier partit le lendemain dans une trentaine de pirogues, nous laissant seuls avec les femmes et les enfants dans les maisons abandonnées.]”
• “Humanity is confined to the borders of the tribe, the linguistic group, or even, in some instances, to the village ....”
• “Our science arrived at maturity the day that Western man began to see that he would never understand himself as long as there was a single race or people on the surface of the earth that he treated as an object. Only then could anthropology declare itself in its true colours: as an enterprise reviewing and atoning for the Renaissance, in order to spread humanism to all humanity.”
• “We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are "good to eat" but because they are "good to think." [Les espèces sont choisies non commes bonnes à manger, mais comme bonnes à penser.]”
• “These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.”
• “Serialism] is like a sailless ship, driven out to sea by its captain, who has grown tired of its being used only as a pontoon, and who is privately convinced that by subjecting life aboard to the rules of an elaborate protocol, he will prevent the crew from thinking nostalgically either of their home port or of their ultimate destination.&hellip;”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Claude

Gender

male

Citizenship

Belgium

Place of birth

Brussels

Place of death

16th arrondissement of Paris

Occupation

researcher

Educated at

Lycée Janson-de-Sailly

Employer

École pratique des hautes études

Political party

French Section of the Workers' International

Languages spoken

French

Native language

French

Religion

Judaism

Doctoral student

Pierre Clastres

Field of work

structuralism

Image

Levi-strauss 260 (cropped2).jpg

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