Claude Levi Strauss

Claude Levi-Strauss, author of the "Tristes Tropiques", was one of the most influential intellectuals in the 2nd half of the 20th century. Tracing the evolution of his ideas, this title describes Levi-Strauss\' meeting with Roman Jakobson, and shows how his development of structuralist ideas in anthropology has influenced a generation of thinkers.