Claude Levi-Strauss
Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale du Collège de France et de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lectures
September 26, 1984 — 4:10 PMUniversity of California, Berkeley — UC Berkeley Campus
About Claude Levi-Strauss
Claude Levi-Strauss was a French social anthropologist who became a leading scholar in the structural approach to social anthropology. He is famous for theorizing that if social scientists can understand man’s mental structures they can then build a study of man which is as scientific as the laws of gravity. He demonstrated how myths encode categories of native thought. The lecture centers itself around mythical thought and social life.