Anthropology

...said Pramod Das, a farmer from the nearby village of Sarlahi. "I believe now my mother's wishes will come true." Ram Bahadur Chetri, an anthropology professor at Katmandu's Tribhuwan University, said: "They continue these animal sacrifice...

In this article: Goat, Nepal, and India

"They continue these animal sacrifice rituals because they believe it is a tradition that can't be broken," said Ram Bahadur Chetri, an anthropology professor at Katmandu's Tribhuwan University. "The people who follow these traditions...

In this article: Nepal, Goat, Chicken, and Katmandu

...name for his field is hard to come by: He has been described variously as a sociolinguist, an anthropological linguist, and a linguistic anthropologist. He himself called his vast, ecumenical discipline "the ethnography of communication. ''

In this article: Literature, Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown University, John J. Gumperz, Noam Chomsky, and Language

...where he taught from 1987 until his retirement in 1998. He was the president of several professional associations, including the American Anthropological Association and the American Folklore Society. His most important books include "In Vain...

In this article: Linguistics, Dell Hymes, Charlottesville, University of Pennsylvania, Reed College, and Gary Snyder

Claude Levi-Strauss, eminent anthropologist, died at age 100 He said people understand the world in terms of binary oppositions His philosophical ideas are key in thinking about personal responsibility Levi-Strauss considered myths an...

In this article: Claude Levi-Strauss, Marshall Sahlins, Philosophy, Tanya Luhrmann, U.S., Brazil, and E mail

...there, he made the first of his many visits into the Amazon interior, living among various tribes and cementing his reputation as an anthropologist. Although popular thought at the time alternately viewed such groups as savages and...

In this article: Claude Levi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques, France, Philosophy, Susan Sontag, Nicolas Sarkozy, and Paris

...compared the formal relationships among elements in any given system. During his six-decade career, Levi-Strauss authored literary and anthropological classics including "Tristes Tropiques" (1955), "The Savage Mind" (1963) and "The Raw...

In this article: Claude Levi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques, Nicolas Sarkozy, Brazil, Sao Paulo, Paris, France, and Halloween

...are contested. One complaint is that he failed to sufficiently take into account history and the empowerment of individuals. French anthropologist Philippe Descola, who wrote his thesis under Levi-Strauss' guidance, told AP last year that...

In this article: Claude Levi-Strauss, Nicolas Sarkozy, Paris, France, Tobacco, World War II, New School, and American Anthropological Association

Audio for this story from All Things Considered will be available at approx. 7:00 p.m. ET Claude Levi-Strauss, the French anthropologist whose books, films, lectures and collections changed how the so-called modern world came to...

In this article: Claude Levi-Strauss, Anthropologist, Paris, and NPR

...and thought, especially myths, in a wide range of human societies. During his six-decade career, Levi-Strauss authored literary and anthropological classics including Tristes Tropiques (1955), The Savage Mind (1963) and The Raw and the...

In this article: Claude Levi-Strauss, Nicolas Sarkozy, World War II, Yale, Harvard, The Raw and the Cooked, Tristes Tropiques, Bernard Kouchner, and France