Claude Lévi-Strauss is regarded as one of the most influential thinkers in the development of structuralism in anthropology. His work transformed the study of culture by introducing the idea that human societies and cultural practices are organized according to underlying structures of thought. Drawing inspiration from structural linguistics, especially the ideas of Ferdinand de Saussure, Lévi-Strauss argued that culture functions like a language, where meanings are produced through relationships among different elements rather than through isolated objects or practices. Lévi-Strauss’s major contribution to structuralism was the application of linguistic structural analysis to anthropology. He believed that beneath the visible diversity of human cultures there exist universal patterns of human cognition. According to him, the human mind has a common structure that organizes experiences through systems of classification and relationships. Cultural phenomena such as myths, kinship systems, rituals, and social institutions are expressions of these deep mental structures. One of Lévi-Strauss’s most significant contributions was his analysis of kinship systems. In his famous work “The Elementary Structures of Kinship,” he argued that kinship is not simply based on biological relationships but