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Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908)

Claude Lévi-Strauss is best known as the founder of structuralism, an anthropological theory that stresses the interdependence of cultural systems and the way they relate to one another. He theorized that culture is a system of symbolic communication that, like phonemic differences in language, owes its meaning to structure. Borrowing heavily from contemporary linguistics, his theory was a major departure from earlier "functionalist" theories. Why was Lévi-Strauss investigated by the FBI? More... Discuss
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