nytimes.com - 18 days ago
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Claude Lévi-Strauss, the French anthropologist and father of structuralism, has died at the age of 100.
boston.com - 17 days ago
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boston.com —
CLAUDE-LEVI-STRAUSS-300x201.jpg The anthropologist Claude L vi-Strauss Claude L
vi-Strauss, who died on Oct. 30, age 100, was
an extraordinarily influential figure in France by the early 1960s, but "hardly known in this country," according to a young ...
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Sontag on Claude Levi
nybooks.com - 17 days ago
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nybooks.com —
Volume 1, Number 7 · November 28, 1963
A Hero of our Time By Susan Sontag Structural
Anthropology by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Translated from the French by Claire Jacobson, by Brook Grundfest Schoepf Basic Books, 432 pp., $10.00 The paradox is ...
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The New York Review of Books
thelede.blogs.nytimes.com - 18 days ago
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thelede.blogs.nytimes.com —
One of the many French thinkers who felt
the impact of Claude Lévi-Strauss's work was the sociologist
Pierre Bourdieu, who explained in a television interview that he had read his books as a "sort of practical anti-racist manifesto."
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The Influence of Claude Lévi-Strauss
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Claude Lévi-Strauss
1908 – 2009
“Writing is a strange invention.
One might suppose that its emergence
could not fail to bring about profound changes
in the conditions of human existence,
and that these transformations
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... ). An obituary of Claude Levi-Strauss , the French anthropologist who towered over the French intellectual scene in the 1960s and ’70s (and ...
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... ), links to Edward Rothstein's NYT obit (which I think is the best of all these, if you're reading just one), as well as a number of French-language tributes and video clips. Here's a short snippet from Rothstein's piece: ...
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... Any attempt to deal with the questions I’ve raised in this essay must confront that issue. How do we tease apart the cultural and the natural in these texts? The newer psychologies – cognitive, neuro, evolutionary – no doubt have roles to play in this effort. But so does the careful comparative analysis of the texts themselves. In that task we would do well to learn from Lévi-Strauss’s work on myth. * * * * * Levi-Strauss on the web, a few links New York Times, archive , the obit Literary Saloon, links Scott Atran, a (personal) memory Savage ...
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guardian.co.uk 17 days ago — French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss (n1908) in Amazonia in Brazil c. 1936 Lévi-Strauss, above, in 1936 in Brazilian Amazonia, where he undertook fieldwork, and below at the Collège de France, in Paris, in 2001. Photograph: Apic/Getty Images
The Associated Press: French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss dies
google.com 19 days ago — (AP) 5 hours ago PARIS The Academie Francaise says that Claude Levi-Strauss, an influential French intellectual who was widely considered the father of modern anthropology, has died. He was 100. Levi-Strauss was widely regarded as having reshaped ...
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nybooks.com 17 days ago — Volume 1, Number 7 · November 28, 1963 A Hero of our Time By Susan Sontag Structural Anthropology by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Translated from the French by Claire Jacobson, by Brook Grundfest Schoepf Basic Books, 432 pp., $10.00 The paradox is ...
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