The true meaning of myth, Lévi-Strauss held, lay below the narrative surface ... but wherever the data runs counter to the theory, Lévi-Strauss will either bypass the evidence or marshal ...

The death of Claude Lévi-Strauss October 30 in Paris at age 100 closed an epoch in anthropology. His name was synonymous with structuralism, the dominant theory of culture in the late 20th ...

Claude Lévi-Strauss, one of the pre-eminent social anthropologists ... He was best-known for popularizing a social-science theory known as “structuralism,” a philosophical method of ...