Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Pierre Clastres

French anthropologist1934 to 1977

Wikidata names Claude Lévi-Strauss as doctoral advisor and names Alfred Métraux and Claude Lévi-Strauss as teachers. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

Two steps up and one down. Solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

How to read the marksstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlex

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors2

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

The line above and below1 step

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Education and career3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.