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• Claude Lévi-Strauss and the Smithsonian

  
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  The James Smithson Bicentennial Meda l was presented for conveyance to Claude L é vi-Strauss , who has been called the “father of modern anthropology,” on June 24, 2009 when he was 100 years old. The presentation ceremony was held at the office of the Ambassador of France to the U. S., Pierre Vimont ...
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• Claude Lévi-Strauss: ‘Neolithic’ & A Man of Science

  
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  Claude Lévi-Strauss, who died on October 30th (aged 100), made the study of anthropology as fashionable as philosophy and poetry. The Economist pays a tribute: “Before Claude Lévi-Strauss revolutionised the discipline, anthropology in France, and generally elsewhere, was a matter of ill-attended lectures in ...
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• Remembering Claude Lévi-Strauss

  
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  By now you may have heard that French anthropologist and sociologist Claude Lévi-Strauss passed away on October 30th. Often called "the father of modern anthropology", Lévi-Strauss was an important structuralism theorist. His theories are presented in Structural Anthropology , both volumes of which are available in ...
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• Lévi-Strauss and gene-culture co-evolution

  
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  With the recent death of Claude Lévi-Strauss, there has been an outpouring of praise for his contributions to anthropology, notably the struggle for a more politically conscious anthropology and the shift from biological determinism to cultural determinism. This praise tells us more about the praisers than about ...
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• Deconstructing Lévi-Strauss

  
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  Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Two-Part Harmonies by Larry Rohter , The New York Times , November 8, 2009 InfiniteBodyhttp://infinitebody.blogspot.com
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• Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009) and Christian Missions

  
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  “I hate traveling and explorers.” Claude Lévi-Strauss in "Tristes Tropiques", NYTimes French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss passed away on October 30 at the age of 100. He was one of the greatest thinkers of last century in regards to mythology, anthropology and understanding culture. His bias towards ...
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• In Memory of Claude Lévi-Strauss

  
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  By Scott Atran Claude Lévi-Strauss, arguably the worlds most famous and influential anthropologist, died on October 30 at the age of 100. This is a lasting memory of my first encounter with him. In 1974, when I was a graduate student in anthropology at Columbia University, I wanted to organize a discussion of ...
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• Um domingo com Lévi-Strauss

  
  ma-schamba — Authority: 437
  A morte de Lévi-Strauss provocou, no meu registo doméstico, alguns efeitos que me sublinham alguma da sua celebridade, inusitada nesta corporação antropológica. 3 longínquos sms’s de pêsames vindos de amigos que não são antropólogos. E até invectivas por não ter aqui escrito algo sobre o autor, apesar ...
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• Claude Lévi-Strauss 1908-2009

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 129
  While I was away this week, I was surprised to hear the news that anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss has passed away. My own interests are anthropological only in the loosest sense, but the influence of Lévi-Strauss became massively influential across a broad range of cultural academic disciplines: The fame of ...
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• Thoughts on Claude Lévi-Strauss

  
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  In college in the fifties I fell in with a group of graduate students who were sociologists and anthropologists who half convinced me that, taken together, these disciplines sufficed to define the world. Sociology (then at the height of its prestige) explained advanced industrial societies, while anthropology took ...
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• Claude Lévi-Strauss dies at 100

  
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  In his thoughtful (and lengthy) obituary of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Edward Rothstein describes the French anthropologist as a profoundly influential and powerful thinker, an intellectual giant of the 20th century, and a scientist whose analyses of the cultural significance of myths “challenge the reader with their ...
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• Structuralist Anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss Passes Away

  
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  Lévi-Strauss in Brazil in the 1930s (Apic/Getty Images). I found out in yesterdays New York Times that influential anthropologist and structuralist Claude Lévi-Strauss passed away at the ripe old age of 100.  Considering how I am greatly influenced by such (post)structuralist philosophers such as Althusser , ...
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• Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1908-2009

  
  Ensaios Imperfeitos — Authority: 149
  Considerado o fundador da Antropologia Estruturalista, Lévi-Strauss morreu na véspera de completar 101 anos. Nascido em Bruxelas, estudou Direito e Filosofia na Sorbonne, tendo-se depois especializado no campo da etnologia. Influenciou de maneira decisiva a filosofia, a sociologia, a história e a teoria da ...
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• I kept waiting for the sentence saying he started the Levi jeans company, it never came…

  
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  Image via WikipediaClaude Lévi-Strauss, the French anthropologist whose revolutionary studies of what was once called “primitive man” transformed Western understanding of the nature of culture, custom and civilization, has died at 100.His son Laurent said Mr. Lévi-Strauss died of cardiac arrest Friday at his ...
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• Lethnologue Claude Lévi-Strauss est mort

  
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  French is not a language I ever attempted seriously, but even I can understand this headline. Last year for Claude Lévi-Strauss 100th birthday I did a series of posts about him and his works. (I even learned how to type the accent mark on my Mac keyboard -option e - doing that series.) He would have been 101 on ...
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• Claude Lévi-Strauss dies at age 100

  
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  French anthropologist and ethnologist, Claude Lévi-Strauss, passed away a week ago at age 100: Claude Lévi-Strauss, 100, Dies; Altered Western Views of the ‘Primitive’ Claude Lévi-Strauss, the French anthropologist whose revolutionary studies of what was once called “primitive man” transformed Western ...
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• Claude Lévi-Strauss RIP

  
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  One of the greatest anthropologist has died. His influence on my research has been profound. He and another Jew, the Arabic-speaking Jacques Derrida , also influenced by Lévi-Strauss, have left vast evidence both ethnographically and intellectually for the binary distinctions that frame Reality and enable us to ...
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• Claude Lévi-Strauss Dies at 100 - Obituary (Obit) -...

  
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  Claude Lévi-Strauss Dies at 100 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com A powerful thinker, Mr. Lévi-Strauss was an avatar of “structuralism,” a school of thought in which universal “structures” were believed to underlie all human activity, giving shape to seemingly disparate cultures and creations. His work was a ...
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• Claude Lévi-Strauss: à la prochaine fois

  
  OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY — Authority: 109
  Almost one year ago we celebrated the remarkable 100th birthday of Claude Lévi-Strauss. Today we learn that his body has died. In the meantime, we continue to work with what he has left us, as can be seen in the latest posts on this blog concerning his vision of a future anthropology, as seen back from the 1960s. ...
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• Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908 - 2009)

  
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  Foto: Flickr |von sagabardon CC-Lizenz Claude Lévi-Strauss (* 28. November 1908 in Brüssel; † 1. November 2009 in Paris) war ein französischer Ethnologe und Anthropologe. Er gilt als Begründer des ethnologischen Strukturalismus . Biographie in Daten 1927-1931 Studium an der Sorbonne und ...
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