boston.com - 18 days ago
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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 Susan Sontag. Sontag, therefore, took it upon ...
nytimes.com - 18 days ago
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nytimes.com —
Claude Lévi-Strauss, the French anthropologist and father of
structuralism, has died at the age of 100.
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Obituary (Obit)
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
telegraph.co.uk - 18 days ago
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telegraph.co.uk —
Anthropologist and father of Structuralism whose influence extended
far beyond his discipline
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Claude LéviStrauss
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Susan Sontag on Claude Lèvi-Strauss
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The anthropologist as hero: Sontag praises Claude Lèvi-Strauss in the NYRB, circa 1963.
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... Susan Sontag's estimate of the late Claude Lévi-Strauss, projected forwards to us by way of two excellent blogs. • Is it possible to be addicted to books signed by the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous? The follow-up, with auction prices, suggests yes. • "Sadly," confesses dovegreyreader, "my heart doesn't do that little leap of joy at the sight or thought of a Trollope." • Excessively clever things to do with a notebook binding; eventually someone will write a novel that requires one. • A rising writer's ...
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