BEFORE Claude Lévi-Strauss revolutionised the discipline ... Generations of students considered him the father of structuralism—the theory of underlying order in everything.

It is based on four or five leading names, such as Tylor, Frazer, Malinowski, Boas and the recently deceased Claude Lévi-Strauss ... “This is the Lévi-Strauss rejection, Parisian style: structuralism ...

“The idea behind structuralism”, he explained ... The son of a painter, Claude Lévi-Strauss was born in Brussels on November 28 1908. When the First World War broke out he was sent ...