Claude levi strauss biography cortallon

Claude Lévi-Strauss was born on November 28 1908 in Brussels of French parents.

After graduating in law and studying philosophy (agrégation de philosophie in 1931, doctorat ès lettres in 1948), he turned to ethnology.

He taught for two years at the lycées of Mont-de-Marsan and Laon, before being appointed member of the French university mission in Brazil, and professor at the University of São Paulo (1935-1938). From 1935 to 1939, he organized and directed several ethnographic missions in Mato Grosso and Amazonia.
During these years, he studied the Indian tribes of Amazonia. His travels among these so-called primitive societies were recounted in the book Tristes tropiques, published in 1955, which made him famous at .

Returning to France on the eve of the war, he was mobilized in 1939-1940. He left France in 1941 for the United States, where he taught at the New School for Social Research in New York. After volunteering for the Free Levi strauss biography!