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the Literary Saloon: Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-2009)
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Didn't hear about this until just now, not sure why - RIP Claude Levi-Strauss http://bit.ly/1ye6cx #devglob #claudelevi-strauss 9 days ago |
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Lévi-strauss died on halloween... http://bit.ly/2eVPQH 15 days ago |
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RIP Lévi-Strauss. Lived to 100 - respect. If I was a guy he'd be one of my role models. Telegraph Obituary http://tinyurl.com/yf7ardb 18 days ago |
Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-2009)
the Literary Saloon —
Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009) has passed away, leading to widespread coverage, from The Independent's leader, An anthropologist for our age, to any number of solid obituaries -- see, for example, among the early ones:
Thomas H. Maugh II's in The Los Angeles Times
The Telegraph's
Stephen Miller's in the Wall Street Journal
Lizzy Davies' in The Guardian
See also, for example, Robert ...
OMNIVORE: The art of the fake headline
bookforum.com —
... and more on Ayn Rand, capitalism's martyred hero. A review of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms by Ethan Gilsdorf (and more and more and an interview ). An obituary of Claude Levi-Strauss , the French anthropologist who towered over the French intellectual scene in the 1960s and ’70s (and more and more and more ).
Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-2009)
Omnivoracious —
... I mentioned the death of Claude Levi-Strauss in the Daily News this morning, and I'd love to be able to add a lot more to the story, but mainly I'll just link to some people who know him better than I. The Literary Saloon points to a few of the substantial obituaries that have already appeared, e.g. the LA Times, the Telegraph, and the WSJ. And Rob(ert) Mackey at the NYT's The Lede (who happens to be a great old friend who I'm still beholden to for, among other things, turning me on to Flann O'Brien), ...
