Claude Levi-Strauss, 100; his ideas, research transformed anthropology

The Boston Globe | November 5, 2009| | Copyright

NEW YORK - Claude Levi-Strauss, the French anthropologist who transformed Western understanding of what was once called "primitive man" and who towered over the French intellectual scene in the 1960s and '70s, died Friday at age 100 at his home in Paris.

A powerful thinker, he became an avatar of structuralism, a school of thought in which universal structures were believed to underlie all human activity, giving shape to seemingly disparate cultures and creations.

Dr. Levi-Strauss was a profound influence, even on his critics, and there were many. And his writing - a mixture of the pedantic ...

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