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Claude Lévi-Strauss
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French anthropologist and ethnologist (1908–2009)

Also known as: C. Lévi-Strauss, Claude Gustave Levi-Strauss, Klod Levi-Stros, Lévi-Strauss, Claude, Клод Леви-Строс, كلود ليفي ستروس

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Known works

  • Totémisme aujourd'hui (1964)
  • Mythologiques
  • Saudades do Brasil
  • The way of the masks
  • Tristes Tropiques