Claude Lévi-Strauss
- 1908–2009
A French anthropologist and ethnologist, Claude Lévi-Strauss was one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. As the founder of structuralism in anthropology, he profoundly transformed our understanding of human societies. Through his research on myths, family structures, and kinship systems—particularly among Indigenous peoples of the Amazon—he demonstrated that so-called “primitive” societies possess logic and complexity equal to that of Western societies.
