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French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss dies
Yahoo - AP ^ | 11/03/09

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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1 posted on 11/03/2009 9:34:00 AM PST by Borges
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2 posted on 11/03/2009 9:34:34 AM PST by Borges
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Too bad his jeans didn’t hold up.


3 posted on 11/03/2009 9:35:44 AM PST by equalitybeforethelaw
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Shouldn’t he be wearing more denim?


4 posted on 11/03/2009 9:36:27 AM PST by xjcsa (And these three remain: change, hope and government. But the greatest of these is government.)
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Wow! I really thought he died decades ago!


5 posted on 11/03/2009 9:38:27 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
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To: Borges

So now it’s Claude Wrangler’s day in the sun!


6 posted on 11/03/2009 9:39:27 AM PST by Pessimist (u)
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Old French bluejeans makers don’t die.
They just fade away.


7 posted on 11/03/2009 9:42:36 AM PST by tumblindice (You kids, get off my lawn! (turning on sprinkler))
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To: Borges

The button fly finally got him, huh.


8 posted on 11/03/2009 9:44:50 AM PST by Adder (Proudly ignoring Zero since 1-20-09!)
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To: Borges

‘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’


9 posted on 11/03/2009 9:44:52 AM PST by Leg Olam (Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you. - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: equalitybeforethelaw

But Wranglers do hold up. Same company.


10 posted on 11/03/2009 9:49:12 AM PST by RC2
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To: Leg Olam

And “Get Me On Flight 505.”


11 posted on 11/03/2009 9:50:36 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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Come on people where are the comments on Structural Anthropology!


12 posted on 11/03/2009 9:51:54 AM PST by Borges
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

First LP I ever bought...or one of the first Aftermath


13 posted on 11/03/2009 9:53:55 AM PST by dennisw (Obama -- our very own loopy, leftist god-thing.)
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To: equalitybeforethelaw

Only took two posts. Excellent!


14 posted on 11/03/2009 9:55:38 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: Borges

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.


15 posted on 11/03/2009 9:59:05 AM PST by Our man in washington
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Come on people where are the comments on Structural Anthropology!

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

16 posted on 11/03/2009 10:00:23 AM PST by dennisw (Obama -- our very own loopy, leftist god-thing.)
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To: Our man in washington
Olivia's sister Joan Fontaine is also still alive. As are Mitch Miller, Rise Stevens and Art Linkletter.
17 posted on 11/03/2009 10:01:04 AM PST by Borges
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To: Our man in washington

I was a surprise to me too. 100 years — pretty good run. Let’s hope to do better.


18 posted on 11/03/2009 10:01:29 AM PST by bvw
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To: dennisw; Eric in the Ozarks
Rolling Stones reference bump :)
19 posted on 11/03/2009 10:02:49 AM PST by MotorCityBuck (Page 73, Johnson, Navin)
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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.”

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".

20 posted on 11/03/2009 10:07:32 AM PST by cynwoody
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