Claude Levi-Strauss dies at 100; French philosopher's ideas transformed anthropology

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 - 03:21 in Paleontology & Archaeology

He was known as the father of modern anthropology because of his then-revolutionary conclusion that so-called primitive societies did not differ greatly intellectually from modern ones. Claude Levi-Strauss, the French philosopher widely considered the father of modern anthropology because of his then-revolutionary conclusion that so-called primitive societies did not differ greatly intellectually from modern ones, died Friday at his home in Paris from...

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