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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.
All of this time, all of these years, I thought he died around the time that structuralism died, the 70s.
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Any relationship to the blue jeans company?
Wow. I thought he was dead when I read him in college 5 years ago. I didn’t realize he lived to (presumably) read post-structuralism and say “Huh?!” with the rest of us.
me too. i thought he was dead when i first read him in the ’80s.
@4 and 3, I know. i’m simply shocked. he was alive.
I thought he died after the California gold rush.
@2:
Levi Strauss was born Löb Strauss in Buttenheim in the Bavarian region of Germany.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Straus…