Claude levi strauss biography brevettato

The French social anthropologist Claude Gustave Lévi-Strauss (born 1908) became a leading scholar in the structural approach to social anthropology.

Claude Lévi-Strauss was born on November 28, 1908, in Brussels, Belgium, of a cultured Jewish family.

He grew up in France, attended a lycée in Paris, and studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, University of Paris.

Claude levi strauss biography brevettato

After holding several provincial teaching posts, he became interested in anthropology and accepted an appointment as professor of sociology at São Paulo University, Brazil (1935-1939), which enabled him to do field research among Brazil's Indian tribes.

Lévi-Strauss returned to wartime France and served in the army (1939-1941).

He taught in New York City at the New School for Social Research and at the école Libre deśtudes (1942-1945). He was also cultural attachéin the French embassy (1946-1947).

Back in France, Lévi-Strauss was associate director of the Musée de I'Homme, director of the école Prat