Structural Anthropology (Anthropologie structurale) is a collection of seventeen essays by the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, published by Plon in Paris in 1958 and translated into English by Claire Jacobson and Brooke Grundfest Schoepf for Basic Books in 1963. In his preface Lévi-Strauss explains that he chose them from roughly a hundred papers written over some thirty years; most had appeared in journals between the mid-1940s and the mid-1950s, and two were printed for the first time in the book.
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About Claude Lévi-Strauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009) was a French anthropologist, born in Brussels and educated in philosophy and law in Paris. From 1935 he taught at the new University of São Paulo and made field expeditions to the Caduveo, Bororo and Nambikwara peoples of Brazil. During the Second World War he took refuge in New York, where he taught at the New School and the École Libre des Hautes Études and learned structural linguistics from Roman Jakobson. His books include The Elementary Structures of Kinship (1949), Tristes Tropiques (1955), The Savage Mind (1962) and the four volumes of Mythologiques (1964–1971). He held the chair of social anthropology at the Collège de France from 1959 and was elected to the Académie française in 1973.