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French anthropologist and ethnologist (1908–2009)

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Claude Lévi-Strauss (klawd LAY-vee STROWSS;^[2]French:[klodlevistʁos]; 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] He held the chair of Social Anthropology at the Collège de France between 1959 and 1982, was elected a member of the Académie française in 1973 and was a member of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris.

He received numerous honors from universities and institutions throughout the world.

Lévi-Strauss argued that the "savage" mind had the same structures as the "civilized" mind and that human characteristics are the same everywhere.^[