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 Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, Father of Structuralism, Dies at 100Posted on Nov 3, 2009
French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, who wrote several seminal works during his six-decade career and is responsible for those seemingly inscrutable structuralist texts you may have grappled with in college, died last weekend at 100. —KA
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By exitbird, December 24, 2009 at 8:23 am Link to this comment
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I am a big fan of him.
Report thisBy Virginia777, November 10, 2009 at 5:35 pm Link to this comment
I’m not mystified at all by the great Levi-Strauss (and he was 101, not 100, when he died).
Report thisBy gerald spezio, November 10, 2009 at 1:09 pm Link to this comment
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The preposterous French fog known as structuralism is deep brain damage.
Report thisAlthough it leads to the complete mystification of its poseuring adherents, structuralists pompously act as though they actually know something.
The illusion of knowledge is worse than ignorance.
By G.Anderson, November 8, 2009 at 4:16 pm Link to this comment
As an undergraduate, I was one of those who grappled, with Levi-Strauss works, along with Marvin Harris, and Leslie White to name a few. On my way to a degree in Anthropology. Levi-Strauss works were good to think about.
This was back when people still had brains, and could think. Though even then, mindlessness was creeping in. Before everthing had the potential to become a reality show or a computer game.
Structualism, for those who still remember: Me:Other, Life:Death, Culture:Nature.
Goodbye, we will not be likely to see your kind again.
Report thisBy radson, November 5, 2009 at 3:12 pm Link to this comment
Howie: Your mistaking to different persons with similar names Claude Levi Strauss,which the article is about and Levi strauss and Company the jeans maker.
Report thisBy Howie Bledsoe, November 5, 2009 at 6:18 am Link to this comment
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He also made some pretty kick-ass jeans.
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