page_title: Claude Lévi-Strauss
hierarchical_section_title: Claude Lévi-Strauss
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Claude Lévi-Strauss taken in 2005
context_page_description: Claude Lévi-Strauss was a French anthropologist. He was born to French Jewish parents in Brussels. He grew up in Paris. 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, 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]
context_section_description: Claude Lévi-Strauss (pronounced [klod levi stʁos]; 28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) was a French anthropologist. He was born to French Jewish parents in Brussels. He grew up in Paris. 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, 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]
caption: Lévi-Strauss in November 2005
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