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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. Category:Works by Claude Lévi-Strauss - Wikipedia

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    Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Works by Claude Lévi-Strauss" The following 6 pages are in ...

  5. 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."

  6. 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]

  7. Edmund Leach - Wikipedia

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    Despite being a central interpreter of Levi-Strauss' work, producing several introductory works on Levi-Strauss' theoretical perspective, Leach considered himself "at heart, still a 'functionalist'". [12] His book Lévi-Strauss was translated into six languages and ran three editions. His turn of phrase produced memorable quotes, such as this ...

  8. Structuralist theory of mythology - Wikipedia

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    In structural anthropology, Claude Lévi-Strauss, a French anthropologist, makes the claim that "myth is language".Through analysing mythology as language, Lévi-Strauss suggests that it can be approached the same way as language can be approached by the same structuralist methods used to address language.

  9. Floating signifier - Wikipedia

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    Daniel Chandler defines the term as "a signifier with a vague, highly variable, unspecifiable or non-existent signified". [4] The concept of floating signifiers originates with Claude Lévi-Strauss, who identified cultural ideas like mana as "represent[ing] an undetermined quantity of signification, in itself void of meaning and thus apt to receive any meaning".