Claude Levi-Strauss was born in Brussels on November 28, 1908. He was the father of structuralism and kinship studies in anthropology.
He studied law and philosophy in France. In 1935 he worked at the University of Sao Paolu Brazil until 1939. He conducted his first ethnographic work in the Amazon rainforest with the tribes of Mato Grosso. In this anthropological study, he published the famous book: "Tristes Tropiques" and "The Savage Mind."
He taught at the New School for Social Research in New York. In this city, he met the linguist Roman Jakobson, whose work was fundamental to the evolution of his ideas of Kinship.

I like Levi-Strauss, because in his structural studies, he could establish the first law in the society: “Incest Taboo”. Also I like him, because he did the structuralist theory.

He returned to France after the Second World War. There he received awards as: the gold medal of Ethnology and the Viking Fund Award (1966), the gold medal at the Centre National de la Recherché Scientifique (1967), the Erasmus Prize (1973) The Foundation Award Nonimar (1986) and the Legion of Honor (1996).
He died in Paris, on Friday, October 30, 2009, before the age of 101.