ANTHROPOLOGIST

Claude Lévi-Strauss

1908 - 2009

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Claude Lévi-Strauss has received more than 2,086,840 page views. His biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 70 in 2019). Claude Lévi-Strauss is the most popular anthropologist, the 14th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 12th in 2019) and the most popular Belgian Anthropologist.

Claude Lévi-Strauss is most famous for his analysis of the structure of human societies.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Claude Lévi-Strauss ranks 1 out of 93. After him are Bronisław Malinowski, James George Frazer, Jane Goodall, Edward Burnett Tylor, Lewis H. Morgan, Paul Broca, Margaret Mead, Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, Gregory Bateson, and Clifford Geertz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Claude Lévi-Strauss ranks 11. Before him are Enver Hoxha, Oskar Schindler, Abraham Maslow, Edward Teller, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Herbert von Karajan. After him are Otto Skorzeny, Lev Landau, Olivier Messiaen, John Bardeen, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Geli Raubal. Among people deceased in 2009, Claude Lévi-Strauss ranks 3. Before him are Michael Jackson, and Patrick Swayze. After him are Kim Dae-jung, Millvina Dean, Corazon Aquino, Paul Samuelson, Roh Moo-hyun, Aage Bohr, Omar Bongo, Pina Bausch, and Maurice Jarre.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Claude Lévi-Strauss ranks 14 out of 1,190. Before him are Leopold II of Belgium (1835), Gerardus Mercator (1512), Maurice Maeterlinck (1862), Andreas Vesalius (1514), Anthony van Dyck (1599), and Leopold III of Belgium (1901). After him are Ursula von der Leyen (1958), Philip I of Castile (1478), Albert II of Belgium (1934), Frans Hals (1582), Orlande de Lassus (1534), and Georges Simenon (1903).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Belgium

Among anthropologists born in Belgium, Claude Lévi-Strauss ranks 1. 

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