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   Claude Lévi-Strauss

   Claude Lévi-Strauss (French pronunciation: [klod levi stʁos]; (28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist, and has been called the "father of modern anthropology". When young, Lévi-Strauss organized expeditions into the French countryside, and later studied in Paris, where he went on to teach.
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   Jean-Pierre Vernant

   Influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Vernant developed a structuralist approach to Greek myth, tragedy, and society which would itself be influential among classical scholars. ... Influence
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   Dina Lévi-Strauss

   In 1932 she married Claude Lévi-Strauss, who developed his interest in ethnology while working with his wife. ... In the following decades, her influence upon her husband and her contribution to their joint expeditions fell largely into oblivion when her role was ignored in the writings of her former husband that became so important to the field of anthropology.
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   Anarcho-primitivism

   Other scholars and thinkers such as Paul Shepard, influenced by anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, have written of the "Evolutionary Principle" which roughly states that when a species is removed from its natural habitat its behaviors will become pathological. ... Specialization is seen as leading to inevitable inequalities of influence and undermining egalitarian relationships.
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   Jonathan Z. Smith

   Jonathan Zittell Smith (J. Z. Smith) is a historian of religions. ... He has also been influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss.
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   Structural anthropology

   Structural anthropology is based on Claude Lévi-Strauss' idea that people think about the world in terms of binary opposites—such as high and low, inside and outside, person and animal, life and death—and that every culture can be understood in terms of these opposites. ... The possibly most significant influence on structuralism came from Mauss' The Gift.
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   Index of social and political philosophy articles

   Claude Lévi-Strauss ... Social influence
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   Tristes Tropiques

   Tristes Tropiques is a memoir, first published in France in 1955, by the anthropologist and structuralist Claude Lévi-Strauss. ... Critical Reception and Influence
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   Strauss

   Strauss or Strauß is a common German surname. ... Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908 – 2009), French anthropologist
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    Françoise Héritier

    Françoise Héritier is a French anthropologist and successor to Claude Lévi-Strauss at the Collège de France (Chair of Comparative Studies of African Societies from 1982 to 1998, now emeritus professor). Her work deals mainly with the theory of alliances and on the prohibition of incest (both theories based on the notion of exchange of women).

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