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NEWS ABOUT: Claude Levi-Strauss

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 Anthropologist 
 Levi-Strauss 
 Dead at 100 

French ethnologist introduced structuralist theory

(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. 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,... More »

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