Levi-Strauss was an influential thinker and anthropologist from France who is considered the father of structuralism, which is essentially the belief that CULTURE IS A CONSTRUCTION. This structure could be that of myth or, as Saussure is famous for arguing, language. The movement had its greatest
(though brief) popularity in 1960s-70s France, came after existentialism and was followed by
postructuralism (Derrida, Foucault).
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/europe/04levistrauss.html?hp
I love the structuralist and poststructuralist movements, and really enjoyed reading thinkers like
Levi-Strauss, Lacan, Barthes, Foucault and Baudrillard in my Literary Theory class last spring.
I would like to thank Professor David Collings for being such a phenomenal, passionate and brilliant
teacher!
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