Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss (French: [klod levi stʁos]; 28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist, and has been called, along with James George Frazer and Franz Boas, the "father of modern anthropology". The work of Lévi-Strauss was also key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.

Books

By L

• La Vie familiale et sociale des Indiens Nambikwara, 1948
• Les Structures élémentaires de la parenté
  • The Elementary Structures of Kinship, 1949
• Tristes Tropiques
  • A World on the Wane, 1955
• Anthropologie structurale
  • Structural Anthropology, 1958
• Le Totemisme aujourdhui
  • Totemism, 1962

La Pensee sauvage (“The Savage Mind”; 1962) Mythologiques I-IV (1964-1971) Anthropologie structurale deux (“Structural Anthropology, Vol. II”; 1973) La Voie des masques (“The Way of the Masks”; 1972) Myth and Meaning (1978) Paroles donnés (“Anthropology and Myth: Lectures, 1951-1982”; 1984) Le Regard éloigné (“The View from Afar”; 1983) La Potière jalouse (“The Jealous Potter”; 1985) Histoire de Lynx (“The Story of Lynx”; 1991)

On Lévi-Strauss

• François Dosse, History of Structuralism, 2 Vols., 1991–.
• Ronan Le Roux, "Lévi-Strauss, une reception paradoxale de la cybernétique", L’Homme 189 (January-March 2009), pp 165-190. (in French)
• L'Homme 193: "Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009)", 2010. (in French)
• Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, "From Information Theory to French Theory: Jakobson, Levi-Strauss, and the Cybernetic Apparatus", Critical Inquiry 38 (Autumn 2011), pp 96-126.