(22647) Lévi-Strauss = 1998 OR8
French anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009)
introduced structuralism as the basis of human perception. Disillusioned with
the study of philosophy at the Sorbonne, he went in 1935 to Brazil, where his
research on Indian tribes culminated in Tristes Tropiques (1955) and
La Pensée Sauvage (1962).
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