"And so five years ago it was structuralism, and now it is something else. I practically don't dare use the word 'structuralist' anymore, since it has been so badly deformed. I am certainly not the father of structuralism." Said Claude Lévi-Strauss, asked, in the 1980s, about ...

R.I.P. An anecdote from The Raw and the Cooked: During World War II, when the US Army approached the caves in which Roquefort cheese is fermented, they assumed the smell was of rotting corpses, and destroyed the contents with flamethrowers.

From the NYT obituary for Claude Lévi-Strauss: The accepted view held that primitive societies were intellectually unimaginative and temperamentally irrational, basing their approaches to life and religion on the satisfaction of urgent needs for food, clothing and shelter. Mr. ...

French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, who wrote several seminal works over the course of his six-decade career and is also responsible for those seemingly inscrutable structuralist texts you may have grappled with in college, died last weekend at the age of 100. READ THE WHOLE ITEM  ...

Source: [b]AP[/b] PARIS — Claude Levi-Strauss, widely considered the father of modern anthropology for work that included theories about commonalities between tribal and industrial societies, has died. He was 100. The French intellectual was regarded as having reshaped the field of ...

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French social anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss died over the weekend at the age of 100.  His theory of structuralism was a major influence on such titans of philosophy as Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida. Back in 1967, TNR's  Patrick Gallagher reviewed his seminal work ...

Claude Levi-Strauss We are disappointed that Hoffman lost in NY 23. The "meaning" of these elections will be spun to death. WSJ: Obama and the Liberal Paradigm . "The sheep are quite capable of looking out for themselves. Someone tell the Democrats." We sheep would be ...

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