Obituary: Claude Levi-Strauss

Claude Levi-Strauss, Anthropologist, Dies at 100

By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN

Published: November 3, 2009

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.

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