Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist and ethnologist (born 1908)

Claude Lévi-Strauss

French anthropologist and ethnologist (1908–2009)

Claude Lévi-Strauss was a Belgian-born French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. He held the chair of Social Anthropology at the Collège de France between 1959 and 1982, was elected a…