Claude Levi-Strauss has died

[BAJR Host]

Renowned French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss has died, aged 100.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8340936.stm

Tell me... how many of us have grasped the concept of structuralism..! Still coping :face-plain:

So rest in peace Claude , you had a great life - and thought deep thoughts!

One of the most influential French intellectuals of the 20th Century, he founded the structuralist school of anthropology in the 1950s.

Levi-Strauss's books include Tristes Tropiques - a 1955 biographical book regarded as a classic - as well as The Savage Mind and The Raw and the Cooked.

In a tribute, French President Nicolas Sarkozy called Levi-Strauss "one of the greatest ethnologists of all time".

Levi-Strauss applied the structural approach pioneered by linguistics to anthropology, arguing that family relations and belief systems are best analysed as complex sets of interrelated parts.

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[chiz]

Tell me... how many of us have grasped the concept of structuralism..!

YellowPete?}

[YellowPete]

well they did say i wasn't dead...get over it. So my response could be equally nialist


war is heck

[YellowPete]

brow indeed


its a tragedy, modern or no

he will no doubt be missed by those who knew him.

[kevin wooldridge]

I am sure this is mere coincidence, but I thought that last night's Time Team Special on the secrets of Stonehenge was a perfect illustration of Levi-Strauss structuralism....

[YellowPete]

one would hope

:face-plain: