Claude Levi-Strauss: Father of modern anthropology
1908-2009
November 4, 2009
Claude Levi-Strauss, an influential French intellectual who was widely considered the father of modern anthropology, has died. He was 100.
The Academie Francaise did not give a cause or date of death in the announcement Tuesday. French media said he died Friday.
Mr. Levi-Strauss was widely regarded as having reshaped the field of anthropology, introducing new concepts concerning common patterns of behavior and thought, especially myths, in primitive and modern societies.
During his six-decade-long career, he authored many literary and anthropological classics, including Tristes Tropiques. AP