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Claude Lévi-Strauss (pronounced |/klod levi stʁos/) (born November 28, 1908) is a French anthropologist who became one of the twentieth century's greatest intellectuals by developing structuralism as a method of understanding human society and culture. Claude Lévi-Strauss - Biography. Claude Lévi-Strauss is an anthropologist best known for his development of structural anthropology. He was born in Brussels and studied law and philosophy at the Sorbon ...

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In 1989, President Slobodan Milošević of Serbia greatly reduced Kosovo's autonomy within Yugoslavia. A harsh regime was imposed, leading to widespread violations of human rights and the repression of dissenters. An estimated 130,000 Kosovo Albanians were sacked from their jobs [3] and the police in particular were almost completely purged of Albanians [4] There were numerous reports of extrajudicial beatings, torture and killings, attracting strong criticism from human rights groups and other countries. [5] ...

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Lévi-Strauss's theories are set forth in Structural Anthropology (1958). Briefly, he considers culture a system of symbolic communication, to be investigated with methods that others have used more narrowly in the discussion of novels, political speeches, sports, and movies. His reasoning makes best sense against the background of an earlier generation's social theory. He wrote about this relationship for decades. A preference for "functionalist" explanations dominated the social sciences from the turn of the century th ...

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Originally part of the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) as its VI Section: Sciences Économiques et Sociales, the EHESS gained autonomy as an independent higher education institution on January 23, 1975. The creation of a dedicated branch for social science research within the EPHE was supported by several initiatives of the Rockefeller Foundation dating back to the 1920s. Soon after its creation (1947), the VI Section, later EHESS, became one of the most influential shapers of contemporary historiography, area ...

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École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales - Overview, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales - Faculty, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales - Research centers

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Claude Lévi-Strauss is an anthropologist best known for his development of structural anthropology. He was born in Brussels and studied law and philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris. He did not pursue his study of law, but agrégated in philosophy in 1931. After a few years of teaching secondary school, in 1935 he took up a last-minute offer to be part of a French cultural mission to Brazil in which he would serve as a v ...

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Claude Lévi-Strauss, Claude Lévi-Strauss - Biography, Claude Lévi-Strauss - Anthropological theories, Claude Lévi-Strauss - Selected bibliography

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Ibrahim Rugova was born on December 2, 1944 in Crnce/Cerrcë, Kosovo near the end of World War II [2]. At this time, Kosovo was occupied by Albania (controlled by the Italians since 1941, and later by the Germans since 1943). Yugoslav control was re-established towards the end of the war when the Yugoslav Partisan army of Tito defeated Albanian nationalists for control of the province. His father Ukë Rugova and his paternal grandfather Rrustë Rugova were summarily executed in January 1945 by Y ...

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Ibrahim Rugova, Ibrahim Rugova - Family and early life, Ibrahim Rugova - Political career, Ibrahim Rugova - The slide to war, Ibrahim Rugova - Post-war, Ibrahim Rugova - Honours, Ibrahim Rugova - Sources, Ibrahim Rugova - Succession

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