Claude Lévi-Strauss was the last French intellectual giant. He was one of the greatest social anthropologists of the age, and his reputation spread well beyond the confines of his discipline as the most distinguished post-war exponent of structuralism, a mode of analysis which, in its more loosely defined forms, was a dominant force in the human sciences from the 1950s through to the 1970s and 1980s.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Claude Lévi-Strauss: French social anthropologist | Times Online Obituary
Claude Lévi-Strauss: French social anthropologist | Times Online Obituary
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