Nov 3rd, 2009 - Newser
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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 anthropology, introducing structuralism _ concepts about common patterns of behavior and thought, especially myths, in a wide range of human societies. Defined as the search for the underlying patterns of thought in all forms of human activity, structuralism compared the formal relationships among elements in any given system.
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Claude Lévi-Strauss Dies at 100
Nov 4th, 2009 - New York Times
Claude Lévi-Strauss, the French anthropologist who transformed Western understanding of what was once called "primitive man" and who towered over the French intellectual scene in the 1960s and '70s, has died at 100. His son Laurent said Mr...
French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss dies
Nov 3rd, 2009 - Houston Chronicle
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...French anthropologist Levi-Strauss dies
Nov 3rd, 2009 - Washington Times
PARIS (AP) -- Claude Levi-Strauss, widely considered the father of modern anthropology for work that included theories about commonalities between tribal and industrial societies, has died...
French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss dies aged 100
Nov 3rd, 2009 - guardian.co.uk
France was paying tribute tonight to one of its greatest intellectuals, the social anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, who has died at the age of 100.
The structuralist thinker...French anthropologist Levi-Strauss dies at 100
Nov 3rd, 2009 - Reuters
PARIS (Reuters) - French intellectual Claude Levi-Strauss, the founder of structural anthropology, has died at the age of 100, his publishing house Plon said on Tuesday. Levi-Strauss...
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3:09Claude Levi-Strauss: return to the Amazon
Journey to the heart of the Amazon rainforest in the footsteps of Claude Lévi- Strauss. Sixty years after the renowned French anthropologist conducted his famous fieldwork among the Nambikwara, we return to find his memory alive and well among the tribesmen ...
6:37berio: Sinfonia, 1º movement.
performed by the CBSO conducted by Simon Rattle. For this movement Berio used fragments of the book The raw and the cooked, by french anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss; however, Levi-Strauss was not aware of the aproach that ...
10:37Berio: Sinfonia, 4º movement.
as a kind of coda, and reuses texts from the first three movements. It opens with a quotation from Lévi-Strauss that is at the same time a veiled reference to Mahler's second symphony: the fourth movement of Sinfonia opens with the words "rose de sang" (French for "rose of blood") ...
3:16Claude Lévi Strauss
This is my Linguistics project on the Belgian-French social anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss. Sorry if it lags in some areas. Credit for music, info, and pictures to their respective owners (see credits).
