BEFORE Claude Lévi-Strauss revolutionised the discipline, anthropology in France, and generally elsewhere, was a matter of ill-attended lectures in small, cold halls, and the collection of ...

Claude Levi-Strauss, eminent anthropologist, died at age 100 ; He said people understand the world in terms of binary oppositions ; His philosophical ideas are key in thinking about personal ...

I did not choose Claude Levi-Strauss; he was thrust upon me. Structuralism was far from my mind when I was gifted a bunch of his books. A couple of academicians were arguing over the merits of ...

Claude Lévi-Strauss was the most famous anthropologist of his generation, and one of the leading intellectuals in post-war France. His writings inspired a major intellectual movement, and at ...

The great French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss died on Oct. 30, at the sagacious age of 100. But word of his death wasn't announced until several days later. By then, he had been buried and ...