Claude Lévi-Strauss, defining French anthropologist of the twentieth century, has died at the age of 100. For devotees and dilettantes who know of the "anthropology god" (as Gawker calls him) what ...
He wasn’t the kind of anthropologist devoted to field work in far-flung places. “I hate traveling and explorers” is the first line of Tristes Tropiques, his classic 1955 account of his years in Brazil ...
Shortly after his reception at the French Academy in 1973, Claude Lévi-Strauss confided, in an exceptional interview, to the director Jean-Claude Bringuier. An approach by Claude Lévi-Strauss is a ...