Books & the Arts January 19, 2011 Library Man: On Claude Lévi-Strauss With a sharp eye for cultural patterns and a keen feel for the shape of a story, Claude Lévi-Strauss was a poet in the ...

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.

I hate travelling and explorers. Yet here I am proposing to tell the story of my expeditions.” Claude Lévi-Strauss opens ...

After the well-deserved hosannas of praise for the centenary, and subsequent dignified mourning for the demise, of the great French Jewish anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, a backlash seemed ...

French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, one of the leading intellectuals of his time, has died at age 100.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Claude Lévi-Strauss 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 ...