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| Anthropologist Levi-Strauss dies | Anthropologist Levi-Strauss dies |
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| The renowned French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss has died at the age of 100. | |
| One of the most influential French intellectuals of the 20th Century, he founded the structuralist school of anthropology in the 1950s. | 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. | 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. | His death was announced in Paris by his publisher, Plon. |
| Levi-Strauss applied the structural approach pioneered by linguistics to anthropology, arguing that family relations and belief systems are best analysed as complex sets of interrelated parts. | |
| The Wild Mind | |
| Levi-Strauss undertook his first ethnographic fieldwork among Brazilian tribes in the 1930s. | |
| After the war he taught in the US, where he befriended and was influenced by anthropologist Franz Boaz. | |
| Returning to France to complete his doctorate in the late 1940s, Levi-Strauss published a book version of his thesis, The Elementary Structures of Kinship, which drew praise in academic circles. | |
| The publication of Tristes Tropiques in 1955 secured his reputation as a major intellectual. | |
| In 1959 Levi-Strauss was named to a chair in social anthropology at the prestigious College de France in Paris. | |
| The Wild Mind was published in 1962 to worldwide acclaim. |