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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Death The Raw and the Cooked: Claude Lévi-Strauss Dies at 100

Posted by on Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:11 PM

Holy smoke!

Claude Lévi-Strauss, the French anthropologist who transformed Western understanding of what was once called “primitive man” and who towered over the French intellectual scene in the 1960s and ’70s, has died at 100.
All of this time, all of these years, I thought he died around the time that structuralism died, the 70s.

 

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CUIT!
Posted by kinaidos on November 3, 2009 at 12:20 PM
Urgutha Forka 2
Any relationship to the blue jeans company?
Posted by Urgutha Forka on November 3, 2009 at 12:23 PM
Saadi 3
Wow. I thought he was dead when I read him in college 5 years ago. I didn't realize he lived to (presumably) read post-structuralism and say "Huh?!" with the rest of us.
Posted by Saadi on November 3, 2009 at 1:20 PM
Matthew Richter 4
me too. i thought he was dead when i first read him in the '80s.
Posted by Matthew Richter http://www.xomonline.com on November 3, 2009 at 3:03 PM
Charles Mudede 5
@4 and 3, I know. i'm simply shocked. he was alive.
Posted by Charles Mudede on November 3, 2009 at 3:21 PM
Banna 6
I thought he died after the California gold rush.
Posted by Banna http://www.ucp.org on November 3, 2009 at 3:38 PM
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@2:

Levi Strauss was born Löb Strauss in Buttenheim in the Bavarian region of Germany.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Straus…
Posted by Weekilter on November 3, 2009 at 3:43 PM

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