He wasn't the kind of an-rnthropologist devoted to field work in far-flung places. "I hate traveling and explorers" is the first line of Tristes Tropiques, his classic 1955 account of his years in Brazil and other locales. Instead, hisrnposition as one of the greatest figures in anthropology, and as a giant in postwar intellectual life generally, rests upon his effort to draw from anthropology a larger philosophy of human cultures.rnBuilding on the linguistic science developed by the pioneering semiotician Ferdinand de Saussure, Levi-Strauss became a pivotal figure in the development of structuralism, which holds that universal mental structures underlie the behaviors, social relations and beliefs of virtually all societies in all eras.
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机译：他不是那种专门在遥远地方进行野外工作的人类学家。 “我讨厌旅行和探险家”是Tristes Tropiques的第一句话，他1955年的经典作品讲述了他在巴西和其他地区的生活。相反，他作为人类学最伟大的人物之一，并且通常是战后知识生活中的巨人，其地位在于他努力从人类学中汲取更大的人类文化哲学。rn基于先驱符号学家费迪南德·德·索绪尔（Ferdinand de Saussure）发展的语言科学。 ，列维·斯特劳斯（Levi-Strauss）成为结构主义发展过程中的关键人物，认为普遍的心理结构是各个时代几乎所有社会的行为，社会关系和信仰的基础。
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