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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 1,951,769 page views. His biography is available in 70 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 69 in 2019). Claude Lévi-Strauss is the most popular anthropologist (up from 76th in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 11th 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 69After him are Bronisław Malinowski, Edward Burnett Tylor, James George Frazer, Lewis H. Morgan, Jane Goodall, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Franz Boas, Paul Broca, Clifford Geertz, and Gregory Bateson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Claude Lévi-Strauss ranks 7Before him are Simone de Beauvoir, Oskar Schindler, Abraham Maslow, James Stewart, Salvador Allende, and Enver Hoxha. After him are Herbert von Karajan, Lyndon B. Johnson, Otto Skorzeny, Ian Fleming, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Olivier Messiaen. Among people deceased in 2009, Claude Lévi-Strauss ranks 3Before him are Michael Jackson and Patrick Swayze. After him are Kim Dae-jung, Paul Samuelson, Pina Bausch, Roh Moo-hyun, David Carradine, Aage Bohr, Maurice Jarre, Millvina Dean, and Farrah Fawcett.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Claude Lévi-Strauss ranks 12 out of 1,019Before him are Jan van Eyck (1395), Andreas Vesalius (1514), René Magritte (1898), Maurice Maeterlinck (1862), Gerardus Mercator (1512), and Leopold II of Belgium (1835). After him are Philip I of Castile (1478), Anthony van Dyck (1599), Orlande de Lassus (1534), Albert II of Belgium (1934), Mary of Burgundy (1457), and Ursula von der Leyen (1958).

Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Belgium

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