Claude Lévi-Strauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss was a French anthropologist born in Belgium to French-Jewish parents, raised in Paris, and educated at the University of Paris.
He taught at the University of São Paulo, conducted fieldwork in central Brazil, and later joined the New School for Social Research in New York.
Returning to France, he became Director of Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études and eventually held the Chair of Social Anthropology at the Collège de France.
Renowned for developing structural anthropology, he authored works including Structural Anthropology, Totemism, and The Raw and the Cooked, receiving honorary degrees from Oxford, Yale, Harvard, and Columbia.
