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...
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.
Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another. Claude Lévi-Strauss
Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.
Animals are good to think with. Claude Lévi-Strauss
Animals are good to think with.
Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt. Claude Lévi-Strauss
Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.
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.
Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss. Claude Lévi-Strauss
Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.
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.
Nor must we forget that in science there are no final truths. Claude Lévi-Strauss
Nor must we forget that in science there are no final truths.
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 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.
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing. Claude Lévi-Strauss
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.