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Claude Levi-Strauss

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Noun1.Claude Levi-Strauss - French cultural anthropologist who promoted structural analysis of social systems (born in 1908)


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French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, who helped shape Western thinking about human civilisation, has died at the age of 100, his publisher and colleagues said.
95 Paperback Key thinkers in the study of religion BL51 Tremlett (School of Oriental and African Studies and Institute of Ismaili Studies, London) reviews the contributions of French social anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss (b.
Claude Levi-Strauss in 'The Raw and The Cooked'--his study of the myths of South American Indians--shows how for them a meal--'real' food--had to consist of cooked food, and his analysis shows that in these myths it is clear that raw equates to the natural and cooked to culture.
 
 
 
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