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Published 11/04/2009 by Haaretz


Renowned French Jewish intellectual Claude Levi-Strauss dies at 100

Claude Levi-Strauss, widely considered the father of modern anthropology for work that included theories about commonalities between tribal and industrial societies, has died. He was 100. The French Jewish intellectual was regarded as having reshaped the field of anthropology,...

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Father of Modern Anthropology Dies
French academic Claude Levi-Strauss, the creator of structural anthropology, passed away at the age of 100, his publisher Plon announced on Tuesday.Levi-Strauss, ... - [11/04/2009 - Red Orbit]
One of the towering French intellectuals
CLAUDE GUSTAVE LEVI-STRAUSSANTHROPOLOGIST28-11-1908 - 1-11-2009CLAUDE Levi-Strauss, one of the pre-eminent social anthropologists of the 20th century, whose erudite, ... - [11/04/2009 - The Age]
Claude Levi-Strauss Dead At 100
Claude Levi-Strauss, an anthropologist and one of the great French intellectuals of the 20th century, has died. He was 100.The Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences ... - [11/04/2009 - OfficialWire]
French institute says seminal French anthropolo... - [11/03/2009 - Breitbart.com]
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French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss ... - [11/03/2009 - Boing Boing]
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...Sao Paulo, said "given his age, we were almost expecting this, but still I feel a kind of emptiness." The Brazil he described...
Renowned French Jewish intellectual Claude Levi-Strauss dies at 100 [Haaretz - 11/04/2009]
...of emptiness. "The Brazil he described in "Tristes Tropiques" is a very particular world of the senses and as he himself said there, it was a bit like rediscovering Americans, like the explorers of the 17th century. He often spoke about this emotion, this feeling. (For him,) Brazil that was less about the county itself than about the Brazil of the Indians and the feeling of walking in the footsteps of the 17th century explorers" Perrone Moises told...
Renowned French Jewish intellectual Claude Levi-Strauss dies at 100 [Haaretz - 11/04/2009]

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