French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss dies aged 100 Claude Levi-Strauss, the French anthropologist who helped shape Western thinking about human civilisation, has died at the age of 100.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/6495348/French-anthropologist-Claude-Levi-Strauss-dies-aged-100.html His death was announced by his publisher in Paris. Levi-Strauss shot to prominence with his 1955 book Tristes Tropiques, considered one of the 20th century's major works.# The French intellectual was widely considered the father of modern anthropology. Levi-Strauss was regarded as having reshaped the field of anthropology, introducing new concepts concerning common patterns of behaviour and thought, especially myths, in primitive and modern societies. During his 6-decade-long career, he authored many literary and anthropological classics, including Tristes Tropiques, The Savage Mind (1963) and The Raw and the Cooked (1964). The Academie Française said on Tuesday that it planed a tribute later in the week. He died over the weekend, according to the office of the president of the School for the Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, in Paris. Levi-Strauss was interested in mythology and once said: "I claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact." He was born in Brussels on Nov 28, 1908, into an affluent French Jewish family. The son of an artist father, he studied law at the University of Paris and philosophy at the Sorbonne. -- 0091 9810522986 http://aryakrishnan.blogspot.com www.bookport.in --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" 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/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
