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Anthropologist Levi-Strauss dies
Claude Levi-Strauss was one of the most influential French intellectuals of the 20th Century; he founded the structuralist school of anthropology in the 1950s.
Levi-Strauss’s books include Tristes Tropiques - a 1955 biographical book regarded as a classic - as well as The Savage Mind and The Raw and the Cooked.
His death was announced in Paris by his publisher, Plon, on Nov. 3, 2009.
Levi-Strauss applied the structural approach pioneered by linguistics to anthropology, arguing that family relations and belief systems are best analyzed as complex sets of interrelated parts.
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