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Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss was a French

social anthropologist. An anthropologist is a person who studies humans, the past and the present t that draws and builds upon knowledge from the social sciences and biological sciences, as well as the humanities and the natural sciences.

He influenced the generations of intellectuals with his ideas on culture and said that the human species would become extinct.

Claude loved working with the cultural systems to what he believed were the essentials , the formal relationships among their elements. He viewed cultures as systems of communication, and he constructed models based on structural linguistics, information theory to interpret them.

Levi – Strauss is considered the father of modern anthropology whose work inspired structuralism . He was one of the most famous anthropologists of his generation. His writings inspired a major intellectual movement, and at least two of his books have already become classis of French Literature. He was largely responsible for the development of anthropology in France. His most famous book was

“Tristes Tropiques” it documents his travels and anthropological work, focusing principally in Brazil though it refers to many other places, such as the Caribbean and India.

- Biography He was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1908 to French parents. He spent his childhood in Paris. He studied philosophy and law at the University of Paris and became a secondary school teacher. He was appointed the professor of sociology at the University of São Paulo, Brazil in 1934, where he conducted his field research on the Indians of Brazil. He also taught at the New School, the University of Paris and the Collège de France. He died on October 30, 2009. Levi Strauss was 100 years old. He was buried in the village of Lignerroles, France.