At teh beging of the Second World War, Levi-Strauss returned to France. After France’s capitulation in 1941, he left the country. He went to Martinique from where he emigrated to New York City. There, he taught at the New School for Social Research and at the Ecole Libre des Hautes Etudes . Levi-Strauss returned to Paris in 1948 to receive doctorate from the Sorbonne. One year later, he published his first notable work – The Elementary Structures of Kinship that soon became one of the most important works in anthropology.
Levi-Strauss rose to international fame after he published Tristes Tropiques (A World on the Wane) in 1961. It containes his trips and life with