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Structural anthropology & its founder, C. Levi-Strauss can be related to Rousseau & Rousseauism. References to Rousseau are made in Levi-Strauss's Triste Tropiques ([Sad Tropics], Paris: Plon, 1955), Le Totemisme Aujourd'hui ([Totemism Today], Paris: Presses University de France, 1962), & 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau, foundateur des sciences de l'homme' ([Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Founder of the Sciences of Man], Anthropologie Structurale Deux, Paris: Plon, 1973). Levi-Strauss focuses on the contrast between culture & nature, as does Rousseau. He interprets & compares his own view with Rousseau's views on totemism & the origin of language & the antithesis between metonymy & metaphor. Although Levi-Strauss reflects Rousseau's views, he distorts them through two centuries of culture. Levi-Strauss attempts to use ethnology as a framework for Rousseau's philosophy, although ethnology did not exist in the eighteenth century. In spite of Levi-Strauss's forced analogies between Rousseau & himself, the influence of Rousseau on cultural anthropology is undeniable. Both have tried to 'protect nature against the excessive claims of culture.' A. Gelfer.