Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Claude Lévi-Strauss was a prominent French anthropologist who is widely regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. He is best known for developing the theory of structuralism, which revolutionized the field of anthropology and had a profound impact on other social sciences.
Claude Levi-Strauss, French social anthropologist and leading exponent of structuralism, a name applied to the analysis of cultural systems (e.g., kinship and mythical systems) in terms of the structural relations among their elements. Learn more about Levi-Strauss, including his notable books.
Lévi-Strauss's theory is set forth in Structural Anthropology (1958). Briefly, he considers culture a system of symbolic communication, to be investigated with methods that others have used more narrowly in the discussion of novels, political speeches, sports, and movies.
Structuralism, in cultural anthropology, the school of thought developed by the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, in which cultures, viewed as systems, are analyzed in terms of the structural relations among their elements.
Claude Lévi-Strauss (November 28, 1908 – October 30, 2009) was a French anthropologist and one of the most prominent social scientists of the twentieth century. He is best known as the founder of structural anthropology and for his theory of structuralism.
While Levi-Strauss’s own explanation of the ‘structural’ in structural analysis (Levi-Strauss 1972: 31–54, esp. 33) tends towards focusing on the synchronic dimension, in practice his work clearly leads towards seeing structure as being essentially ternary and dynamic.
Claude Lévi-Strauss: (1908 – 2009) is unquestionably the founding and most important figure in anthropological structuralism. He was born in Brussels in 1908. and obtained a law degree from the University of Paris. He became a professor of sociology at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil in 1934.
Structuralism, originally developed by anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss in the mid-20th century, revolutionized the way we understand culture, language, and society.
In the bulk of the paper I seek to demonstrate that Levi-Strauss's structuralism in fact has its origins in the attempt to adapt Durkheimian sociology in the light of the newly found individualism characteristic of French radical liberalism of the inter-war years.
Few schools of anthropological theory are as closely identified with the work of one individual as structuralism (or “French structuralism”) is with Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009). Though long out of fashion by the turn of the 21st century, structuralism has remained among the most important theoretical perspectives to originate within ...