This article is about the American clothing manufacturer. For the French anthropologist, see Claude Lévi-Strauss. For other uses, see Levi Strauss (disambiguation).
Levi Strauss
Born
Löb Strauß
(1829-02-26)February 26, 1829
Buttenheim, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Confederation
Died
September 26, 1902(1902-09-26) (aged 73)
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Nationality
German-American
Citizenship
German Confederation (1829–1853) United States (1853–1902)
Occupation
Businessman
Known for
Founding the first company to manufacture riveted blue jeans Founder of the Levi Strauss & Co.
Levi Strauss (/ˈliːvaɪˈstraʊs/LEE-vy STROWSS; born Löb Strauß, German:[løːpˈʃtʁaʊs]; February 26, 1829 – September 26, 1902) was a German-born American businessman who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans. His firm of Levi Strauss & Co. (Levi's) began in 1853 in San Francisco, California.[1][2]
^Downey, Lynn (2008). "Levi Strauss: a short biography" (PDF). Levi Strauss & Co. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 23, 2011. Retrieved January 1, 2011.
^James Sullivan, Jeans: a cultural history of an American icon (Gotham, 2007).
LeviStrauss (/ˈliːvaɪ ˈstraʊs/ LEE-vy STROWSS; born Löb Strauß, German: [løːp ˈʃtʁaʊs]; February 26, 1829 – September 26, 1902) was a German-born American...
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pocket rivets added by Jacob W. Davis in 1871 and patented by Davis and LeviStrauss on May 20, 1873. Prior to the patent, the term "blue jeans" had been...
after Jan Smuts Leo Strauss (1899–1973), political philosopher LeviStrauss (disambiguation), several people, including: LeviStrauss (1829–1902), Bavaria-born...
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on Lévi-Strauss's analysis of data on different kinship systems and marriage practices documented by anthropologists and historians. Lévi-Strauss called...
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have certain evident 'aesthetic' qualities. Boas' Primitive Art, Claude Lévi-Strauss' The Way of the Masks (1982) or Geertz's 'Art as Cultural System' (1983)...
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theories by prominent authors such as Claude Lévi-Strauss, Sir Edward Tylor, and Lewis Henry Morgan. Lévi-Strauss viewed cross-cousin marriage as a form of...
denim jacket is from about 1880 which was from the German businessman LeviStrauss, approximately ten years after he had invented jeans as a new type of...
bricolage," was introduced by cultural anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss in 1962. Lévi-Strauss was interested in how societies create novel solutions by...
anthropology is a school of sociocultural anthropology based on Claude Lévi-Strauss' 1949 idea that immutable deep structures exist in all cultures, and...
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accumulative growth. Lévi-Strauss often referred to Montaigne's essay on cannibalism as an early example of ethnology. Lévi-Strauss aimed, through a structural...
Yalman, among others, introduced French structuralism in the style of Lévi-Strauss; while British anthropology has continued to emphasize social organization...
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