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When Claude Lévi-Strauss died a little over a year ago at age 100, he left behind a curious and contested legacy. For the French, he was the intellectual equivalent of royalty.
BEFORE Claude Lévi-Strauss revolutionised the discipline, anthropology in France, and generally elsewhere, was a matter of ill-attended lectures in small, cold halls, and the collection of ...
The noted French anthropologist, Claude Lévi-Strauss, died on October 30, 2009, less than one month shy of his 101st birthday. To call him an anthropologist probably fails to do him justice.
Claude Levi-Strauss, the French anthropologist whose books, films, lectures and collections changed how the so-called modern world came to understand the so-called primitive world died Saturday in ...
The death of Claude Lévi-Strauss October 30 in Paris at age 100 closed an epoch in anthropology. His name was synonymous with structuralism, the dominant theory of culture in the late 20th ...
But it brought Claude Lévi-Strauss into contact with indigenous people, producing a revolution that spread into every branch of the humanities. No one has mythologised that ramshackle Brazilian jaunt ...
Before Claude Lévi-Strauss, the study of cultures mainly focused on observing and cataloguing the characteristics that made them unique. Lévi-Strauss, by contrast, became the father of modern ...
Claude Lévi-Strauss, the social anthropologist, who died on October 31 aged 100, was one of the dominating postwar influences in French intellectual life and the leading exponent of Structuralism ...
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