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Claude Lévi-Strauss

1908–2009 · French anthropologist and ethnologist

• Professor at Collège de France

Profession

Sociologist, Anthropologist, Professor

Worked at

Collège de France, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, École pratique des hautes études, University of São Paulo

Studied at

Sorbonne

Prizes

Fellow of the British Academy, Huxley Memorial Medal (1965), CNRS Gold medal (1967), Erasmus Prize (1973), Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (1981), International Nonino Prize (1986), grand prix de la Société de géographie (1993), Aby Warburg Prize (1996), Meister Eckhart Prize (2003), Catalonia International Prize (2005)

Lived to 100; the jeans brand shares his name only by coincidence.

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