In the footsteps of an intellectual explorer; In the steps of a great explorer ; Claude Levi-Strauss would go anywhere, with openness and attention

International Herald Tribune | November 10, 2009| | Copyright

LARRY ROHTER
International Herald Tribune
11-10-2009
In the footsteps of an intellectual explorer; In the steps of a great explorer ; Claude Levi-Strauss would go anywhere, with openness and attention
Byline: LARRY ROHTER
Type: News

What made the anthropologist and philosopher Claude Levi-Strauss one of the great intellectuals of the 20th century was his eagerness to explore - not just remote jungles and isolated societies, but also the far reaches of the human mind.

His most celebrated work, "Tristes Tropiques," begins with the words "I hate traveling and explorers." But what made the ...

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