Claude Lévi-Strauss
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| Full name | Claude Lévi-Strauss |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | Structuralism |
| Main interests | Anthropology Society Kinship Linguistics |
| Notable ideas | Structuralism Mythography Culinary triangle Bricolage |
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Claude Lévi-Strauss (pronounced [klod levi stʁos]; born November 28, 1908[1]</ref> - died October 30, 2009[1]) was a French anthropologist. He came up with structural anthropology, which is the idea that people think about the world in terms of opposites—such as high and low, inside and outside, person and animal, life and death—and that every culture can be understood in terms of these opposites. "From the very start," he wrote, "the process of visual perception makes use of binary oppositions." [Structuralism and Ecology, 1972]
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[change] Important works
- Les Structures élémentaires de la parenté (1949, The Elementary Structures of Kinship, ed. *Rodney Needham, trans. J. H. Bell, J. R. von Sturmer, and Rodney Needham, 1969)
- Race et histoire (1952, UNESCO; Extract from "Race and History" - in English; see also The Race Question, UNESCO, 1950)
- Tristes tropiques (1955,[2] trans. John Weightman and Doreen Weightman, 1973) - also translated as A World on the Wane
- Anthropologie structurale (1958, Structural Anthropology, trans. Claire Jacobson and Brooke Grundfest Schoepf, 1963)
- Le Totemisme aujourdhui (1962, Totemism, trans. Rodney Needham, 1963)
- La Pensée sauvage (1962, The Savage Mind, 1966)[2]
- Mythologiques I-IV (trans. John Weightman and Doreen Weightman
- Le Cru et le cuit (1964, The Raw and the Cooked, 1969)[2]
- Du miel aux cendres (1966, From Honey to Ashes, 1973)
- L'Origine des manières de table, 1968, The Origin of Table Manners, 1978
- L'Homme nu (1971, The Naked Man, 1981)
- Anthropologie structurale deux (1973, Structural Anthropology, Vol. II, trans. M. Layton, 1976)
- La Voie des masques (1972, The Way of the Masks, trans. Sylvia Modelski, 1982)
- Paroles donnés (1984, Anthropology and Myth: Lectures, 1951-1982, trans. Roy Willis, 1987)
- Le Regard éloigne (1983, The View from Afar, trans. Joachim Neugroschel and Phoebe Hoss, 1985)
- La Potière jalouse (1985, The Jealous Potter, trans. Bénédicte Chorier, 1988)
- Histoire de lynx (1991)
- Regarder, écouter, lire (1993, Look, Listen, Read trans. Brian Singer, 1997)
[change] References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 « Claude Lévi-Strauss Dies at 100 », The New York Times, 3 novembre 2009.
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[change] Other websites
Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:
- Various excerpts from Structural Anthropology at marxists.org
- Extract from "Race and History" (1952 - see also The Race Question, 1950, UNESCO)
- List of works by Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Lecture: The Birth of Historical Societies (Hitchcock Lectures), October 3 and 4, 1984, UC Berkeley (online audio file)
- Strauss.html Overview, in The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory (subscriber access only)
- (French) Claude Lévi Strauss' profile on the Académie française site
- Linguistic and Commodity Exchanges Examines the structural differences between barter and monetary commodity exchanges and oral and written linguistic exchanges.
- [1] Excerpts from La Pensee Sauvage
[change] Video
- Documentaire 52': About "Tristes Tropiques" 1991 - Film Super 16
