Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-) was born in Belgium, raised and educated in France and in 1934 was offered a position at the University of São Paulo. While in Brazil, he undertook his first ethnographic study of the Bororo Indians. Throughout his anthropological career, Lévi-Strauss was influenced by the study of linguistics, ultimately leading to the founding of Structuralism, which seeks to understand the underlying structure that shapes social life.
