Claude Lévi-Strauss, Anthropologist, Dies at 100 By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN Published: November 3, 2009
Claude Lévi-Strauss, the French anthropologist who transformed Western understanding of what was once called primitive man, died overnight between Saturday and Sunday. He was 100. [...] Mr. Lévi-Strausss structural approach, seeking universals about the human mind, cut against that notion of anthropology. He did not try to determine the various purposes served by a societys practices and rituals. He was never interested in the kind of fieldwork that anthropologists of a later generation, like Clifford Geertz, took on, closely observing and analyzing a society as if from the inside. (He began Tristes Tropiques with the statement I hate traveling and explorers.) [...] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/europe/04levistrauss.html?partner=rss&emc=rss ____________________________________________________________ Online Medical Insurance Get free online medical insurance quotes and save more money today. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/c?cp=8hMfeVkNrUgHuPhGATIe8QAAJ1AP8ttsZd_TbiVxkZxsC3mBAAQAAAAFAAAAAPBMGj8AAAMlAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAiWIQAAAAA= _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
