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• Foucault and Lacan Walk Into A Bar…

  
  Perverse Egalitarianism — Authority: 469
  Here’s an interesting piece from Global-e: One day, way back in the 20 th century, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Roland Barthes sat under an equatorial tree, living in their own imagined primitive past, discussing Global Studies. “What,” asked Barthes, “might the four of us ...
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• sheila

  
  even*cleveland — Authority: 477
      Her wall hangings have the living warmth and the thickness of fleece; their complex structure and their shadows seem to chisel out perspectives attributable only to dream palaces; they offer the mellow depth, radiance and mystery of the starry sky. Nothing better than this art could ...
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• A Farewell to Claude Levi-Strauss

  
  BEYONDbones — Authority: 127
  Claude Lévi-Strauss (Nov. 28, 1908 – Oct 30, 2009) On Oct 30, 2009, Claude Lévi-Strauss passed away. He left quite a legacy in the world of anthropology. Born in Belgium on November 28, 1908, his family moved to France, where he studied at the university on Paris. During the mid-1930s, he taught at the ...
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• Week in Review: Big Questions Edition

  
  The Emerging Scholars Blog — Authority: 120
  Here’s the top five articles, books, websites, etc., that we’ve been reading or thinking about the past week. Let us know your thoughts on any/all of them.  In addition, if you have items you’d like us to consider for the top five, add them in the comments or send them to Tom or Mike . Claude ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Frenchman and his myths: a tribute to Claude Lévi-Strauss

  
  GlobalComment — Authority: 567
  This week, France mourns the loss of one of the nation’s most influential anthropologists and thinkers. Claude Lévi-Strauss died after enduring cardiac arrest last Friday, just twenty-nine days shy of his 101st birthday. He will be remembered most as a revolutionary academic thinker, a scientist and a writer of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Morning Roundup: New Cell-Phone OS vs. Father of Modern Anthropology Edition

  
  City Desk — Authority: 686
  Real Talk With Andrew Beaujon™: What is weighing on you most heavily this morning: The death of Claude Lévi-Strauss …or the impending release of DROID ? If you picked DROID, keep reading! Lévi-Strauss said writing was the difference between the so-called civilized and the so-called savage; DROID says ...
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• Either binary or not

  
  The Goat Rope — Authority: 127
  Portrait of the anthropologist as a young man. Claude Levi-Strauss in the 1930s. Image by way of wikipedia. A few years back, and for reasons that now escape me, I went on a reading jag of books about anthropology, semiotics (the study of signs), structuralism, and literary theory. I think I must have been really ...
  4 weeks ago

• Networks Issue Retractions of Erroneous Levi-Strauss Obituaries

  
  Gerbil News Network — Authority: 132
  NEW YORK.  The three major television networks issued hurried retractions tonight after their evening news anchors confused French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, who died Saturday, with the inventor of blue jeans. Couric:  “Blue jeans came to be seen not just as an article of clothing, but an article ...
  4 weeks ago

• Claude Levi-Strauss, Father of Structuralism, Dies at 100

  
  The Fighting 44s — Authority: 93
  From the NY Times today:Claude Levi-Strauss has died.I rarely meet people who major in literature and artsy humanities, but when I do, I sometimes joke about Claude Levi-Strauss.  Regardless of we studied–French lit, Spanish lit, Philosophy–everybody with a humanities major has read...
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• Trip’s morning reading: Post-election edition

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 558
  It’s likely the New Mexico Legislature will take up domestic partnerships again during January’s regular legislative session after rejecting several previous measures. Not that other states are a predictor of what may happen here, but Tuesday’s elections produced mixed results for supporters. Maine voters ...
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• Houses and sniffles

  
  The Goat Rope — Authority: 127
  A Rhinovirus, courtesy of wikipedia. I think they magnified it a time or two. There is a large and growing body of scientific research about how things like inequality, class and social status engrave themselves into our bodies. Generally speaking, people in higher social positions are less likely to develop ...
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• Claude Levi-Strauss, 100: Reshaped field of anthropology

  
  Nasir Khan blog — Authority: 143
  Angela Doland Associated Press The Toronto Star , Nov. 3, 2009 Claude Levi-Strauss, seen here in a Jan. 13, 1967 file photo, is widely considered to be the father of modern anthropology. The Academie ...
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• Claude Levi-Strauss, RIP

  
  Magic of the Ordinary — Authority: 116
  News of another important death.One of the greatest anthropologists and original thinkers of the 20th century died last week. Claude Levi-Strauss was one of the first westerners to challenge the notions of primitive societies and to really tackle and try to understand the role of myth in traditional and modern ...
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• Claude Levi-Strauss

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 523
  The French anthropologist, Claude Levi-Strauss, has died, aged 100. Levi-Strauss was one of the towering intellectuals of the second half of the twentieth century. At Crikey , Guy Rundle provides an appreciation, and contextualises Levi-Strauss’ thought and influence for our times.
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• Claude Lévi-Strauss est mort

  
  Perverse Egalitarianism — Authority: 469
  Sadness , yet he was 100 year old. Elliott Carter wins (he turns 101 in December). Somehow I don’t think I’m going to be rereading The Savage Mind any time soon… Posted in Philosophy Tagged: Claude Levi-Strauss, Olds
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• "French society, and especially Parisian, is gluttonous. Every five years or so, it needs to stuff something new in its mouth."

  
  Althouse — Authority: 743
  "And so five years ago it was structuralism, and now it is something else. I practically dont dare use the word structuralist anymore, since it has been so badly deformed. I am certainly not the father of structuralism." Said Claude Lévi-Strauss, asked, in the 1980s, about post-structuralists like Foucault, ...
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• Claude Levi-Strauss

  
  Jacob Russell's Barking Dog — Authority: 468
  Claude Levi-Strauss 1909-2009
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• Vale Claude Levi-Strauss

  
  Culture Matters — Authority: 112
  I woke up this morning to read that Claude Levi-Strauss has passed away, aged 100.  As a testament to his stature as a world-shaping thinker, he has received prominent obituaries in newspapers around the world.  This New York Times piece by Edward Rothstein is especially worth a read. As one wit wrote in the ...
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• Claude Levi-Strauss, the father of modern anthropology, died

  
  WagerWeb Entertainment — Authority: 453
  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 structuralism _ concepts about ...
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• Person I Assumed Died Long Ago Dies

  
  Wha' Happen? — Authority: 110
  Claude Levi-Strauss, 1909-2009
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