Levi Strauss

This article is about the clothing manufacturer. For the anthropologist, see Claude Lévi-Strauss and for the company of the same name, see: Levi Strauss & Co.. Levi Strauss, born Löb Strauß (February 26, 1829 - September 26, 1902) was the German-Jewish-born American creator of the first company to manufacture blue jeans. His namesake firm, Levi Strauss & Company, was founded in 1853 in San Francisco.
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This article is about the anthropologist. For the clothing manufacturer, see Levi Strauss. Claude Lévi-Strauss (IPA pronunciation ) (born November 28, 1908) is a French anthropologist who developed structuralism as a method of understanding human society and culture. Outside anthropology, his works have had a large influence on contemporary thought, in particular on the practice of structuralism. Lévi-Strauss is a reference for authors such as Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, and Judith Butler.
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Noun
1. French cultural anthropologist who promoted structural analysis of social systems (born in 1908)
(synonym) Claude Levi-Strauss
(hypernym) anthropologist