Claude Lévi-Strauss, 100, Dies; Altered Western Views of the ‘Primitive’

By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN

Published: November 4, 2009

Claude 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. MORE HERE.

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Mr. Lévi-Strauss in Brazil in the 1930s. More Photos »