To Levy biography

He revolutioned in anthropology, placing culture into its foundation and making it independent of the natural sciences. The creator of his own scientific direction in ethnology - structural anthropology and incest theory, one of the concepts of the origin of culture. Researcher of kinship, mythology and folklore. Born in a Jewish family in Brussels, grew up in a grandfather’s house in Versailles, where he was the main rabbi.

Both of his brothers and father were portraitist artists. In memoirs, he recalls that the atmosphere in the house was bohemian, since childhood he was instilled in the love of music on the example of great -grandfather, the composer of Isaac ... Strauss. In his views, he was a left political activist, a member of the French section of the working international. At the age of 24, the socialists nominated him with a candidate in local elections.

After graduating from the university and service in the army, Levi-Strauss became a lyceum teacher. However, following the council of the Nizan field, the young aggravation of philosophy chooses a different way to realize his abilities-through the knowledge of life, as an anthropologist in the region, according to him, “constant physical and mental exhaustion”-in the year, together with his wife Dina Dreyfus, goes to Brazil, where he soon becomes a professor of the University in San Paulo.

After the first school year, the couple made an expedition to the Indians of the tribes of Kadiuove and Bororo. The ethnographic collection collected there was shown at an exhibition in Paris. The interest caused by this exhibition helped Levi-Strax to receive financial support to continue expeditions. He returned to Brazil, where he organized an expedition to the Indians of Nambikvar and Tup-Kawahib, which lasted more than a year.

The scientist told about his Brazilian travels in the book “Sad Tropics”. After the invasion of the German troops in Paris, Levi-Straxes was impossible to remain in France, due to his Jewish origin. For some time he worked as a teacher in the Lyceum of Perpignan, and then a professor of philosophy at the Montpellier Polytechnic School, but was fired after the entry into force of “racial laws”.

In New York, he lectured on sociology and ethnology at the evening university for adults. He communicated closely with Roman Jacobson, thanks to the influence of which he formulated a structuralist approach to cultural anthropology. Thanks to communication with prominent American ethnologists, especially with the “father of American anthropology” Franz Boas, he also met the achievements of the US ethnography.

In the year, F. Boas died at the Columbia University in the hands of Levi-Strass. At the beginning of the year he returned to France, but soon went to the United States as an adviser in culture at the French consulate in New York. I stayed in this position for up to a year. Having returned the next year to Paris, he received a doctoral degree in the Sorbonne for the work “Family and Social Life of the Nambikvar Indians” and “Elementary Hunning Structures” here is interesting to cooperation of Levi-Strass and outstanding mathematician A.

Weil, who wrote a mathematical application to this book. At the end of X and at the beginning of X, Levi-Strauss conducted active scientific and teaching in France. He led one of the areas at the National Center for Scientific Research CNRS, at the same time gives lectures and holds the position of deputy director for ethnology at the Museum of Human. He headed the 5th section of the practical school of higher research, which was renamed from the “Research of Religions” to the “Comparative Religious Science of Uniform Peoples”.

At the beginning of the year, Levi-Strooss led the Department of Social Anthropology at the College of de France. On his basis, he created a laboratory of social anthropology to give young scientists the possibility of hermital work. The laboratory was prepared by dissertations, expeditions were organized in a variety of areas of the world. Not only the French began to work there, but also scientists from other countries.

In the year, the scientist retired. In the year, Levi-Strazsu was years old, he became the first member of the French Academy to reach this age. In the same year, the galaxy library began the publication of his work, although usually this is not done during the life of the author. The scientist died on October 30 in a dream in his house in Paris from a heart attack.