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The entire village left the next day in about thirty canoes, leaving us alone with the women and children in the abandoned houses. [Le village entier… - Claude Lévi-Strauss
" "The entire village left the next day in about thirty canoes, leaving us alone with the women and children in the abandoned houses. [Le village entier partit le lendemain dans une trentaine de pirogues, nous laissant seuls avec les femmes et les enfants dans les maisons abandonnées.]
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About Claude Lévi-Strauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss (28 November 1908 - 30 October 2009) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.
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Klod Levi-Stros
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Claude Levi-Strauss
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Claude Gustave Levi-Strauss
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Lévi-Strauss, Claude
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קלוד לוי-שטראוס
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