Language is a form of human reason, and has its reasons which are unknown to man.
Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes
I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.
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Birth: | 28th November, 1908 |
Death: | 30th October, 2009 |
Nationality: | French |
Profession: | Anthropologist |
Claude Levi-Strauss was born in Brussels, Belgium. He was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology. At the Sorbonne in Paris, Lévi-Strauss studied law and philosophy. He did not pursue his study of law, but agrégated in philosophy in 1931. He received numerous honors from universities and institutions throughout the world and has been called, alongside James George Frazer and Franz Boas, the "father of modern anthropology".
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