Claude Lévi-Strauss
French anthropologist who applied structural linguistics to the analysis of myth, kinship, and culture. The Raw and the Cooked and Tristes Tropiques are his most celebrated works. He founded structural anthropology and his methods influenced literary theory, philosophy, and cultural studies.
Works
- Tristes TropiquesEthnographic account of Brazilian indigenous cultures and colonial encounter
- The Raw and the CookedStructural analysis of myths in Amazonian societies revealing universal logical patterns
- The Savage MindHow primitive classification systems reflect universal structures of human thought
- Structural AnthropologyEssays on structuralism and anthropological methods for understanding cultural meaning
- MythologiquesMonumental four-volume structural analysis of myth across indigenous American cultures