Claude Lévi-Strauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss was a pioneering French anthropologist and ethnologist, renowned for his structuralist approach to understanding human societies. Born in 1908, he profoundly influenced the field through works like "Tristes Tropiques" and "The Savage Mind." His theories on the universal structures of human thought reshaped anthropology and related disciplines. As a member of the Académie Française, Lévi-Strauss's legacy endures in contemporary cultural studies and philosophy.
Book summaries for books written by Claude Lévi-Strauss
Quotes
The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
In the scientific field, knowledge advances by funeral processions.
To understand a society, one must get inside it.
The world is not a collection of objects, but a collection of events.
Humanity is divided into two: the people who work and the people who don't.
Man is a creature who constantly reinvents himself.
Culture is the sum of all the patterns of thought and behavior that are handed down from generation to generation.
The mind of man is capable of anything.
The human race has not yet found the means to live in harmony with itself.
The savage mind is a mind of contrasts.
The mind is like a parachute; it only functions when it's open.