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Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
61
Citations
27781
World Ranking
1316
National Ranking
15

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1973 - Erasmus Prize, Praemium Erasmianum Foundation
  • 1967 - CNRS Gold Medal, French National Centre for Scientific Research Ethnology
  • 1967 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Claude Lévi-Strauss was affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France. Their research spanned various disciplines, including artificial intelligence, general arts and humanities, sociology and political science, and literature and literary theory.

The primary topics of their work covered linguistic studies and language acquisition, Italian literature and culture, digital games and media, and narrative theory and analysis.

They contributed to a number of academic venues, notably:

  • Cités
  • Social Analysis
  • Histoire Épistémologie Langage
  • Arkiv Tidskrift för samhällsanalys

Among their recent papers were:

  • "Diogène couché," published in 2020 in Cités
  • "The Mathematics of Man" by Claude Lévi-Strauss, published in 2023 in Social Analysis
  • "Lettres d'Émile Benveniste à Claude Lévi-Strauss (1948-1967)," published in 2020 in Histoire Épistémologie Langage
  • "Medverkande författare," published in 2022 in Arkiv Tidskrift för samhällsanalys

Their frequent co-authors included Susanne Küchler, Matthew Carey, John E. Joseph, Chloé Laplantine, and Georges-Jean Pinault.

Their book publications include "Narratives Crossing Boundaries," released in 2023 by Transcript Verlag.

Throughout their career, Claude Lévi-Strauss received several distinctions, including the Erasmus Prize from the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation in 1973, election as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1967, and the CNRS Gold Medal from the French National Centre for Scientific Research in 1967 for ethnology.

Best Publications

  • The Savage Mind.

    Alasdair MacIntyre;Claude Levi-Strauss

  • The Savage Mind

    Claude Lévi-Strauss

  • The Elementary Structures of Kinship

    Claude Lévi-Strauss

  • La Pensée sauvage

    Claude Lévi-Strauss

  • The Structural Study of Myth

    Claude Levi-Strauss

  • The Raw and the Cooked

    Claude Lévi-Strauss

  • Les Structures Élémentaires de la Parenté

    Claude de Lévi-Strauss

  • Sociologia e antropologia

    Marcel Mauss;Claude Levi-Strauss

  • Myth and Meaning

    Claude Lévi-Strauss

  • The Elementary Structures of Kinship

    F. C. T. Moore;Claude Levi-Strauss;James Harle Bell;John Richard von Sturmer

  • El pensamiento salvaje

    Claude Lévi-Strauss;Francisco González Arámburo

  • Introduction to the Work of Marcel Mauss

    Claude Levi-Strauss

  • Historia de Lince

    Claude Lévi-Strauss

  • Sociologie et anthropologie

    Marcel Mauss;Claude Lévi-Strauss

  • Le cru et le cuit

    Claude Lévi-Strauss

  • Las estructuras elementales del parentesco

    Claude Lévi-Strauss;Marie Therèse Cevasco

  • The Way of the Masks

    Claude Lévi-Strauss

  • Race et histoire

    Claude Lévi-Strauss;Jean Pouillon

  • Structural Anthropology Volume II

    Claude Levi-Strauss

  • Anthropology and Myth: Lectures 1951-1982

    Claude Lévi-Strauss;Roy Willis

  • As estruturas Elementares do Parentesco

    Claude Lèvi-Strauss

  • La Pensee Sauvage

    David Bidney;Claude Levi-Strauss

Frequent Co-Authors

Roman Jakobson
Roman Jakobson Harvard University
Carl Gustav Jung
Carl Gustav Jung University of Zurich
Peter K. Manning
Peter K. Manning Northeastern University
Maurice Bloch
Maurice Bloch London School of Economics and Political Science
Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger Philipp University of Marburg
Bronislaw Malinowski
Bronislaw Malinowski London School of Economics and Political Science
Karl Marx
Karl Marx Independent Scientist / Consultant, UK
Alasdair MacIntyre
Alasdair MacIntyre Boston University
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud University of Vienna
Tzvetan Todorov
Tzvetan Todorov Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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