Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss (; 28 November 1908« Claude Lévi-Strauss Dies at 100 », The New York Times, 3 novembre 2009. – 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]

 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, 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)
 Mythologiques I-IV (trans. John Weightman and Doreen Weightman
 Le Cru et le cuit (1964, The Raw and the Cooked, 1969)
 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)

 References 

 Other websites 

 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)
  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.
  Excerpts from La Pensee Sauvage
 Video 
 Documentaire 52': About "Tristes Tropiques"  1991 – Film Super 16

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