Claude Lévi-Strauss

...chairman of the anthropology department at the College de France, said last November on the centenary of Dr. Levi-Strauss's birth. Dr. Levi-Strauss was so revered that 25 countries celebrated his 100th birthday. Dr. Levi-Strauss was a...

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...of modern anthropology. On that 1930s trip that took him across the Atlantic to Latin America, Levi-Strauss' scholarly upbringing guided him on a methodical search for humankind's inner workings as he met tribes in Brazil's jungles. His...

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...mission to Brazil, serving as a visiting professor at the newly created University of Sao Paulo. During his four years there, he made the first of his many visits into the Amazon interior, living among various tribes and cementing his...

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French intellectual who introduced idea of structuralism dies Angela Doland / Associated Press Paris -- Claude Levi-Strauss, widely considered the father of modern anthropology for work that included theories about commonalities between...

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...say, "the search for unsuspected harmonies." French academia and the cultural elite had mobilised for his 100th birthday last year to pay homage to Levi-Strauss with a programme of films, lectures and reflection on his contribution to...

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Influential French thinker Claude Levi-Strauss dies FRENCH anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, who helped shape Western thinking about human civilisation, has died at the age of 100. Levi-Strauss died on Friday and was buried at a...

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Tue Nov 3, 2009 1:22pm EST PARIS (Reuters) - French intellectual Claude Levi-Strauss, the founder of structural anthropology, has died at the age of 100, his publishing house Plon said on Tuesday. Levi-Strauss, who was known to a wider...

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...Savage Mind Levi-Strauss undertook his first fieldwork among Brazilian tribes in the 1930s. After the war he taught in the US, where he befriended and was influenced by anthropologist Franz Boaz. Returning to France to complete his...

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...during a speech to honor his memory. Born on 28 November, 1908, in Brussels, Belgium, Levi-Strauss was the son of French parents of Jewish origin. He studied in Paris and went on to teach in Sao Paulo, Brazil and conduct much of the...

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...has died. He was 100. We'll have a complete obituary online shortly but for those of you for whom Levi-Strauss means denim, you should know he was one of the preeminent social anthropologists of the 20th century and whose erudite, often...

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