The Most Famous
ANTHROPOLOGISTS from Belgium
This page contains a list of the greatest Belgian Anthropologists. The pantheon dataset contains 93 Anthropologists, 1 of which were born in Belgium. This makes Belgium the birth place of the 11th most number of Anthropologists behind Poland, and Czechia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Belgian Anthropologists of all time. This list of famous Belgian Anthropologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908 - 2009)
With an HPI of 74.98, Claude Lévi-Strauss is the most famous Belgian Anthropologist. His biography has been translated into 73 different languages on wikipedia.
Claude Lévi-Strauss ( klawd LAY-vee STROWSS; French: [klod levi stʁos]; 28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. He held the chair of Social Anthropology at the Collège de France between 1959 and 1982, was elected a member of the Académie française in 1973 and was a member of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. He received numerous honors from universities and institutions throughout the world. Lévi-Strauss argued that the "savage" mind had the same structures as the "civilized" mind and that human characteristics are the same everywhere. These observations culminated in his famous book Tristes Tropiques (1955) which established his position as one of the central figures in the structuralist school of thought. As well as sociology, his ideas reached into many fields in the humanities, including philosophy. Structuralism has been defined as "the search for the underlying patterns of thought in all forms of human activity." He won the 1986 International Nonino Prize in Italy.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Belgian anthropologists born between 1908 and 1908. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Belgian anthropologists include Claude Lévi-Strauss.
