Claude Lévi-Strauss was born in Brussels on November 28, 1908. He held the chair of social anthropology at the Collège de France from 1959 to 1982 and was elected a member of the Académie Française in 1973. He died in Paris on October 30, 2009.
Among his works:
La vie familiale et sociale des Indiens Nambikwara. Paris: Société des Américanistes, 1948. [Family and Social Life of the Nambikwara Indians. Trans. Eileen Sittler. New Haven, Conn.: Human Relations Area Files, 197?]
Les structures élémentaires de la parenté. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1949; The Hague: Mouton, 1967. [The Elementary Structures of Kinship. Trans. James Harle Bell, John Richard von Sturmer, and Rodney Need-ham. Boston: Beacon, 1969.]
Race et histoire. Paris: UNESCO, 1952. [Race and History. Paris: UNESCO, 1952.]
Tristes tropiques. Paris: Plon, 1955. [Tristes Tropiques. Trans. John Russell. New York: Atheneum, 1961.]
Anthropologie structurale. Paris: Plon, 1958. [Structural Anthropology. Trans. Claire Jacobson and Brooke Grundefest Schoepf. New York: Basic Books, 1963.]
Le totémisme aujourd’hui. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1962. [Totemism. Trans. Rodney Needham. Boston: Beacon, 1963.]
La pensée sauvage. Paris: Plon, 1962. [The Savage Mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966.]
Mythologiques. Paris: Plon, 1964–1971. Vol. 1, Le cru et le cuit. Vol. 2, Du miel aux cendres. Vol. 3, L’origine des manières de table. Vol. 4, L’homme nu. [Introduction to the Study of Mythology. Trans. John Weightman and Doreen Weightman. New York: Harper & Row, 1969–1981. Vol. 1, The Raw and the Cooked. Vol. 2, From Honey to Ashes. Vol. 3, The Origin of Table Manners. Vol. 4, The Naked Man.]
Anthropologie structurale II. Paris: Plon, 1973. [Structural Anthropology II. Trans. Monique Layton. Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin, 1973.]
La voie des masques. Geneva: Albert Skira, 2 vols. 1975; rev., augmented ed. followed by Trois excursions. Paris: Plon, 1979. [The Way of the Masks. Trans. Sylvia Modelsky. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1982.]
Le regard éloigné. Paris: Plon, 1983. [The View from Afar. Trans. Joachim Neugroschel and Phoebe Hoss. New York: Basic Books, 1985.]
Paroles données. Paris: Plon, 1984. [Anthropology and Myth: Lectures, 1951–1982. Trans. Roy Willis. New York: Blackwell, 1987.]
La potière jalouse. Paris: Plon, 1985. [The Jealous Potter. Trans. Bénédicte Chorier. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.]
Histoire de lynx. Paris: Plon, 1991. [The Story of Lynx. Trans. Catherine Tihanyi. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.]
Regarder écouter lire. Paris: Plon, 1993. [Look, Listen, Read. Trans. Brian C. J. Singer. New York: Basic Books, 1997.]
Saudades do Brasil. Paris: Plon, 1994. [Saudades do Brasil: A Photographic Memoir. Trans. Sylvia Modelski. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995.]
Oeuvres. Paris: Gallimard, 2008.
L’anthropologie face aux problèmes du monde moderne. Paris: Seuil, 2011. [Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World. Trans. Jane Marie Todd. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013.]
L’autre face de la lune: Écrits sur le Japon. Paris: Seuil, 2011. [The Other Face of the Moon. Trans. Jane Marie Todd. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013.]