Claude Lévi-Strauss (28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist.
His work was key in the development of the theo...
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. Claude Lévi-Strauss
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.
The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions. Claude Lévi-Strauss
The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings. Claude Lévi-Strauss
Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.
Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe. Claude Lévi-Strauss
Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.
The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him. Claude Lévi-Strauss
The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
Animals are good to think with. Claude Lévi-Strauss
Animals are good to think with.
I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty. Claude Lévi-Strauss
I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.
Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss. Claude Lévi-Strauss
Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.
Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous. Claude Lévi-Strauss
Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.
I am the place in which something has occurred. Claude Lévi-Strauss
I am the place in which something has occurred.
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 Lévi-Strauss
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.
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions. Claude Lévi-Strauss
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
