ANTHROPOLOGIST

Claude Lévi-Strauss

1908 - 2009

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Claude Lévi-Strauss ( klawd LAY-vee STROWSS; French: [klod levi stʁos]; 28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) was a Belgian-born French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. He held the chair of Social Anthropology at the Collège de France between 1959 and 1982, was elected a member of the Académie française in 1973 and was a member of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. He received numerous honors from universities and institutions throughout the world. Lévi-Strauss argued that the "savage" mind had the same structures as the "civilized" mind and that human characteristics are the same everywhere. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Claude Lévi-Strauss is the most popular anthropologist, the 15th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 14th in 2019) and the most popular Belgian Anthropologist.

Claude Lévi-Strauss is most famous for his analysis of the structure of human societies.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Claude Lévi-Strauss ranks 1 out of 93. After him are Bronisław Malinowski, Jane Goodall, James George Frazer, Edward Burnett Tylor, Lewis H. Morgan, A. L. Kroeber, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Franz Boas, Paul Broca, and Gregory Bateson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Claude Lévi-Strauss ranks 7. Before him are Simone de Beauvoir, James Stewart, Enver Hoxha, Oskar Schindler, Salvador Allende, and Abraham Maslow. After him are Lyndon B. Johnson, Herbert von Karajan, Lev Landau, Otto Skorzeny, Amon Göth, and Edward Teller. Among people deceased in 2009, Claude Lévi-Strauss ranks 3. Before him are Michael Jackson, and Patrick Swayze. After him are Robert McNamara, Kim Dae-jung, Roh Moo-hyun, Ramaswamy Venkataraman, Aage Bohr, Millvina Dean, Paul Samuelson, Maurice Jarre, and Pina Bausch.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Claude Lévi-Strauss ranks 15 out of 1,190. Before him are Philip I of Castile (1478), John of Gaunt (1340), Andreas Vesalius (1514), Anthony van Dyck (1599), Gerardus Mercator (1512), and René Magritte (1898). After him are Leopold II of Belgium (1835), Orlande de Lassus (1534), Carlota of Mexico (1840), Guillaume Du Fay (1397), Frans Hals (1582), and Mary of Burgundy (1457).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Belgium

Among anthropologists born in Belgium, Claude Lévi-Strauss ranks 1. 

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