Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 1908-2009

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Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. Nov. 28, 1908, Brussels, Blegium–d. Oct. 30 2009, Paris, France) grew up in Paris and studied law and philosophy at the Sorbonne. In 1935, was part of a French cultural mission to Brazil as a visiting professor of sociology at the University of São Paulo while his then wife, Dina. Together they conducted research into the Mato Grosso and the Amazon Rainforest. Lévi-Strauss returned to France in 1939. He was employed at a lycée in Montpellier but was dismissed under the Vichy racial laws since Levi-Strauss was Jewish. In 1941, he was offered a position at the New School for Social Research in New York City and granted admission to the United States. He returned to Paris in 1948 and held the chair of Social Anthropology at the Collège de France, 1959-1982. Lévi-Strauss was elected a member of the Académie française. He was one of the central figures in the structuralist school of thought.

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	A-File for Claude Levi Strauss	National Archives at San Francisco
referencedIn	Anshen, Ruth Nanda. Ruth Nanda Anshen papers, 1938-1986.	Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries
referencedIn	Cora Alice Du Bois papers, 1869-1988 (inclusive), 1912-1985 (bulk)	Tozzer Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University
referencedIn	Dell H. Hymes Papers, 1947-1992	American Philosophical Society
referencedIn	E. Robert Schmitz Papers, 1909-1991 (inclusive)	Irving S. Gilmore Music Library
referencedIn	Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars. Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars records. 1927-1949.	New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division
referencedIn	Erik H. and Joan M. Erikson papers, 1925-1985 (inclusive) 1960-1980 (bulk).	Houghton Library
creatorOf	Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963. Melville J. and Frances S. Herskovits papers, 1902-1972.	New York Public Library System, NYPL
referencedIn	Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975. Papers, 1899-1980.	Rice University, Fondren Library
referencedIn	Julian Sorell Huxley papers	Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University

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memberOf	Académie française.
associatedWith	Anshen, Ruth Nanda.
associatedWith	Anshen, Ruth Nanda.
associatedWith	Boas, Franz
employeeOf	Collège de France
correspondedWith	Du Bois, Cora Alice, 1903-
associatedWith	E. Robert Schmitz
associatedWith	Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars
correspondedWith	Erikson, Erik H. (Erik Homburger), 1902-1994
associatedWith	Fenton, William N. (William Nelson), 1908-2005