Definition of Claude Levi-Strauss

1. Noun. French cultural anthropologist who promoted structural analysis of social systems (born in 1908).

Exact synonyms: Levi-strauss
Generic synonyms: Anthropologist

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Literary usage of Claude Levi-Strauss

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Useful Knowledge: The American Philosophical Society Millennium Program by Alexander G. Bearn, American Philosophical Society (1999)
"For structuralism in anthropology, see among others Claude Levi-Strauss, Anthropologie Structurale, Paris: Pion, 1958 and La pensee Sauvage, Paris: Pion, ..."

2. Urban Flotsam: stirring the city by Raoul Bunschoten, Hélène Binet, Takuro Hoshino (2001)
"... condition that tney always form a system in wliich an alteration which affects one element automatically affects all the others.' (Claude Levi-Strauss. ..."

3. Architectural Bodies by Ad Graafland, Michael Speaks (1996)
"Claude Levi- Strauss calls this the incest taboo - it is for him what distinguishes civilized society. The incest taboo forbids entering into relations with ..."

4. Space and the Architect: Lessons in Architecture 2 by Herman Hertzberger (2000)
"4 Claude Levi-Strauss, La pensee sauvage, Librairie Plon, 1962. 5 Howard F. Stein and William G. Nieder- land (eds.). Maps from the Mind: Readings in ..."

5. Globalization on Trial: The Human Condition and the Information Civilization by Farhang Rajaee (2000)
"Claude Levi-Strauss All Adam's children are members of the same frame: Since all, at first from the same essence came ..."

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