It is unusual to associate the figure of the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss with the composition of a trajectory of thought about cities and the urban. However, many are the cities described and thought of by the anthropologist throughout his travels and trajectory. With this in mind, this paper seeks to take as a laboratory the reflections on cities made by Lévi-Strauss – in texts and images – to experience the way the anthropologist thought about cities and how the cities themselves thought through of him. In this paper, where Anthropology and fiction are in dialogue, we seek to speculate paths in which Anthropology could be able to contribute and create imaginations about our ways of building and dwelling cities in the imminence of catastrophes and ends of the world. Thus, we are put in a movement of discovering and inventing cities, imagining other possible experiences for the urban. Drawing, reading, writing, and observing become here movements of expansion of the world and the sensory experiences of research. They are also presented as tools of expression and contact, questioning and transport, another way of dealing with the materials worked in the research. Even so, here we explore different ways of doing Anthropology, operating with different languages. If, for Lévi-Strauss, the cities are "lived and dreamed" and are defined as "the human thing for excellence", in times of crisis, where the "Anthropos" – the human – is mobilized as a geological and catastrophic force, there is an urgent need to rethink our models of imagining and building cities. In this sense, in the task of putting our "cities into question", we seek to study the composition of an urban trajectory of Claude Lévi-Strauss's thoughts.
