Yes, I remember his work well... he had great influence on my thinking as it concerned the field research in Cultural Anthropology. Though I felt his "binary code" primarily applied to cultural myth & perspective to be somewhat limiting, there was that element of the paradoxical tensions created when the chief elements or proponents found in the classical sets of cultural heritage came into play... " the word behind words" as Joseph Campbell may have put it. In some ways it all seems to play back into Wittgenstein. Whatever the case, we all stand on the shoulders of pioneers, TO BE SURE. I appreciate it when others in the group are respectful of that. Chreodman
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:51 PM, nominal9 <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE5A24HT20091103 > French anthropologist Levi-Strauss dies at 100 > Tue Nov 3, 2009 1:22pm EST > Email | Print | Share| Reprints | Single Page[-] Text [+] By Estelle > Shirbon > PARIS (Reuters) - French intellectual Claude Levi-Strauss, the > founder > of structural anthropology, has died at the age of 100, his > publishing > house Plon said on Tuesday. > > Levi-Strauss, who was known to a wider public thanks to his 1955 > memoir and masterpiece, "Tristes Tropiques," died on Saturday. He > would have turned 101 on November 28. > > > "He was France's greatest scientist," said writer Jean d'Ormesson, > fellow member of the Academie Francaise which brings together the > elite of the country's intellectual establishment. > > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
