Focus on France 4 November 2009: Remembering Claude Levi-Strauss

Article published on the 2009-11-04 Latest update 2009-11-04 16:40 TU

Claude Lévi-Strauss being rewarded by Catalan president Pasqual Maragal with the 17th Catalonia International Prize l, Paris, 13 May 2005.
(Photo : Pascal Pavani/ AFP)

This last weekend, France's most famous anthropologist, Claude Levi-Strauss died in Paris at the age of 100 years...

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He was one of the pioneers in the field, changing ways anthropology was being exercised by scholars around the globe, by introducing 'structuralism' which altered the way of thinking within social sciences.

Focus on France 4 November 2009: Death Claude Levi-Strauss

04/11/2009 by Jan van der Made

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