Anthropologist Levi-Strauss is dead
Updated on 03 November 2009
Claude Levi-Strauss, the influential French intellectual widely considered the father of modern anthropology, has died aged 100.
Levi-Strauss was widely regarded as having reshaped the field of anthropology, introducing new concepts concerning common patterns of behaviour and thought, especially myths, in primitive and modern societies.
During his long career he wrote many literary and anthropological classics, including Tristes Tropiques (1955), The Savage Mind (1963) and The Raw And The Cooked (1964).
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