I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protected from criticism and analysis because they are irrational.
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Claude Levi-Strauss was a 20th-century French anthropologist and ethnologist. Claude Lévi-Strauss was a Belgian-born French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. He held the chair of Social Anthropology at the Collège de France between 1959 and 1982, was elected a member of the Académie française in 1973 and was a member of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. Read more on Wikipedia →