FRENCH ANTHROPOLOGIST AND ETHNOLOGIST, HE HAS BEEN CALLED THE "FATHER OF MODERN ANTHROPOLOGY". HE ARGUED THAT THE "SAVAGE MIND" HAD THE SAME STRUCTURES AS THE "CIVILIZED" MIND AND THAT HUMAN CHARACTERISTIC ARE THE SAME EVERYWHERE. THESE OBSERVATIONS CULMINATED IN HIS FAMOUS BOOK TRISTES TROPIQUES, WHICH POSITIONED HIM AS ONE OF THE CENTRAL FIGURES IN THE STRUCTURALIST SCHOOL OF THOUGHT, WHERE HIS IDEAS REACHED INTO FIELDS INCLUDING THE HUMANITIES AND PHILOSOPHY. STRUCTURALISM HAS BEEN DEFINED AS "THE SEARCH FOR THE UNDERLYING PATTERNS OF THOUGHT IN ALL FORMS OF HUMAN ACTIVITY.
FRENCH ANTHROPOLOGIST AND ETHNOLOGIST, HE HAS BEEN CALLED THE "FATHER OF MODERN ANTHROPOLOGY". HE ARGUED THAT THE "SAVAGE MIND" HAD THE SAME STRUCTURES AS THE "CIVILIZED" MIND AND THAT HUMAN CHARACTERISTIC ARE THE SAME EVERYWHERE. THESE OBSERVATIONS CULMINATED IN HIS FAMOUS BOOK TRISTES TROPIQUES, WHICH POSITIONED HIM AS ONE OF THE CENTRAL FIGURES IN THE STRUCTURALIST SCHOOL OF THOUGHT, WHERE HIS IDEAS REACHED INTO FIELDS INCLUDING THE HUMANITIES AND PHILOSOPHY. STRUCTURALISM HAS BEEN DEFINED AS "THE SEARCH FOR THE UNDERLYING PATTERNS OF THOUGHT IN ALL FORMS OF HUMAN ACTIVITY.
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