Claude Lévi-Strauss
Father of structural anthropology
Quotes by Claude Lévi-Strauss
The human mind is a universal, and it is the task of anthropology to discover its universal laws.
The world is a system of signs, and it is the task of the anthropologist to decipher them.
The anthropologist is a man who tries to make sense of the senseless.
The world is a puzzle, and it is the task of the anthropologist to solve it.
The anthropologist is a man who tries to understand the logic of the illogical.
The human mind is a structure of binary oppositions.
The world is a language, and it is the task of the anthropologist to learn to speak it.
The anthropologist is a man who tries to find order in chaos.
The world is a dream, and it is the task of the anthropologist to interpret it.
The anthropologist is a man who tries to make the invisible visible.
The human mind is a grammar, and it is the task of anthropology to discover its rules.
The world is a symphony, and it is the task of the anthropologist to hear its music.
The anthropologist is a man who tries to understand the silent language of culture.
The human mind is a logic, and it is the task of anthropology to reveal its principles.
The world is a dance, and it is the task of the anthropologist to learn its steps.
The anthropologist is a man who tries to make the implicit explicit.
The human mind is a structure of relations, and it is the task of anthropology to map them.
The world is a game, and it is the task of the anthropologist to understand its rules.
The anthropologist is a man who tries to understand the unsaid.
The human mind is a system of transformations, and it is the task of anthropology to trace them.