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  2. Claude Lévi-Strauss - Wikipedia

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    Claude Lévi-Strauss (/ k l ɔː d ˈ l eɪ v i ˈ s t r aʊ s / klawd LAY-vee STROWSS; [2] French: [klod levi stʁos]; 28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) [3] [4] [5] was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. [6]

  3. Claude Vigée - Wikipedia

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    Claude Vigée (born Claude Lévi-Strauss; 3 January 1921 – 2 October 2020) was a French poet who wrote in French and Alsatian. He described himself as a "Jew and an Alsatian, thus doubly Alsatian and doubly Jewish".

  4. The Savage Mind - Wikipedia

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    Lévi-Strauss makes clear that "la pensée sauvage" refers not to the discrete mind of any particular type of human, but rather to 'untamed' human thought: "In this book it is neither the mind of savages nor that of primitive or archaic humanity, but rather mind in its untamed state as distinct from mind cultivated or domesticated for the purpose of yielding a return."

  5. Exchange of women - Wikipedia

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    The exchange of women is an element of alliance theory — the structuralist theory of Claude Lévi-Strauss and other anthropologists who see society as based upon the patriarchal treatment of women as property, being given to other men to cement alliances. [1]

  6. Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human ...

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    The main object of this text is Claude Lévi-Strauss, whose structuralist anthropology analyzed the relationships between elements of cultural systems such as mythology. Derrida admires the reflexivity and abstract analyses of structuralism, but argues that these discourses have still not gone far enough in treating structures as free-floating ...

  7. The True Story of Lewis Strauss' Rivalry With J. Robert ... - AOL

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    However, while Strauss was a supporter of research into the creation of the hydrogen bomb, which J. Robert Oppenheimer vehemently opposed due to his own guilt following the destruction at Hiroshima.

  8. Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture

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    Previously, the main theory in currency was that of Claude Lévi-Strauss, who claimed that culture's rule over nature was established by men when they invented the incest taboo. According to Lévi-Strauss, a point came when the human mind proved capable of distinguishing between 'sister' and 'wife'.

  9. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

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    united states district court for the district of columbia _____ public employees for environmental ) responsibility, et al., )