Claude Levi-Strauss is a French anthropologist, most well-known for his contributions to the development of structural anthropology and structuralism. In his book The Elementary Structures of Kinship , published in 1949, Levi-Strauss argued that kinship relations (which are fundamental aspects of any culture's organization) represent a specific kind of structure. Levi-Strauss studied how people organized their families and established kinship through the alliance between two families when women from one group married men from other groups. He contributed to the creation of genealogical charts, with symbols for fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers and it stands as an example of kinship systems represented as structures. In 1955, Levi-Strauss established his position as an influential intellectual by publishing his memoir, Tristes Tropiques. The book is written in eloquent prose and gives an ethnographic analysis of the Amazo...