4 Quotes & Sayings By Claude Levistrauss

Claude Levi Strauss (December 18, 1908 – August 12, 1987) was a French anthropologist and philosopher. He is the founder of the structuralist school of anthropology, which he defined as "the science of structures." His best known work is Structural Anthropology, which he presented in the form of a series of five papers published between 1952 and 1955. In it, he argues that the reason why there are so few female anthropologists is because men have a different set of "structures" from women.

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I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protected from criticism and analysis because they are irrational. Claude LeviStrauss
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Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few and that it alone among all the languages unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable - these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods. Claude LeviStrauss
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I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Claude LeviStrauss