Posted on 11/03/2009 9:34:00 AM PST by Borges
PARIS – Claude Levi-Strauss, widely considered the father of modern anthropology for work that included theories about commonalities between tribal and industrial societies, has died. He was 100.
The French intellectual was regarded as having reshaped the field of anthropology, introducing the concept of structuralism — concepts about common patterns of behavior and thought, especially myths, in a wide range of human societies. Defined as the search for the underlying patterns of thought in all forms of human activity, structuralism compared the formal relationships among elements in any given system.
During his six-decade career, Levi-Strauss authored literary and anthropological classics including "Tristes Tropiques" (1955), "The Savage Mind" (1963) and "The Raw and the Cooked" (1964).
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Too bad his jeans didn’t hold up.
Shouldn’t he be wearing more denim?
Wow! I really thought he died decades ago!
So now it’s Claude Wrangler’s day in the sun!
Old French bluejeans makers don’t die.
They just fade away.
The button fly finally got him, huh.
‘authored literary and anthropological classics including “Tristes Tropiques” (1955), “The Savage Mind” (1963) and “The Raw and the Cooked” (1964).’
Also ‘The Button Up Fly’ and ‘Peg Legged Boot fit’
But Wranglers do hold up. Same company.
And “Get Me On Flight 505.”
Come on people where are the comments on Structural Anthropology!
First LP I ever bought...or one of the first Aftermath
Only took two posts. Excellent!
My wife and I were having a conversation a few weeks back on “famous people you wouldn’t think are still alive, but are in fact still alive.”
Claude Levi-Strauss was tops on our list. Others included Olivia De Havilland, Gloria Stuart, John Wooden, and Zsa Zsa Gabor.
You should see what anthropologists of the late 1800s had to say about the different cultures, tribes, peoples they encountered and studied. Very politically incorrect Such as people in the near tropics are "ruled by their passions" IE incapable of logical thought
I was a surprise to me too. 100 years — pretty good run. Let’s hope to do better.
I will have to tune in to Howie Carr to see if any listener correctly predicted Levi-Strauss's failure to "come down for breakfast".
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