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Claude Levi-Strauss

In this post I'm gonna tell you about one of the important persons in anthropology that I admire, Claude Levi-Strauss. He was a French ethnologist and anthropologist, and have a big influence from Durkheim, Mauss and Boas. Levi-Strauss born in 1908 and in his long life done a big contributions for anthropology.  His works are made about the structuralism theory , triggering a change in the form to study and analyze the tribal societies. One of his works is “La penseé Savage”, that in my opinion is one of the most important, as well as "Tristes Tropiques", because shows to the academy a new perspective about "savages societies"; he thinking that “savages” have a complex structure of thinking, same like us, but organize it different; is organized through the sensitive. This is was a very important for the anthropology, because this was a influence to the change of the way to understand the “study subject” also called “the other”. For this reason I admire him, because he was advanced for his time for contradict, in some way, the occidental ethnocentric thinking.

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