Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss(28 November 1908-30 October 2009)

This man is a French anthropologist and ethnologist. His famous book is Tristes Tropiques where he exposed that we called structuralist school of thought. He has the chair of social anthropology at the Collège de France(1959-1982),and he has been also a member of the Académie Francaise in 1973.

He was born to French parent who were living at the time in Belgium but he grew up in Paris,France.He studied law and philosophy at the Sorbonne ,then in 1935 he went to Brazil where he wrotes Tristes tropiques .

I really like this character because he represents a search that is not merely  an intellectual one but it’s about experiences too. It’s for me the real knowledge, fruit of curiosity .He probably illustrate the romantic search, the delivery to one culture when he studies it. Tristes tropiques  describes  every detail of the communities of the Amazonas in Bazil. Those  unknowed  places who make possible to imagined other kind of society, that take your sense of wonder far away. To know men through the man, which ,explain the importance of myth. I share the point of view that thought or academics disciplines are closer to poetry even art.