Monday 28 November 2011

November 28: Claude Lévi-Strauss was born (1908)

Claude Lévi-Strauss
 Claude Lévi-Strauss, a French anthropologist and ethnologiest, was born. Lévi-Strauss was called the father of modern anthropology along with James Frazer. Structuralist searching for the underlying patterns of thoughts in all forms of human activity. Tristes Trophiques (Sad Tropics or A World on the Wane). "The savage mind has the same structure as the civilized mind and the human characteristics are the same everywhere."  

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