Claude Lévi-Strauss, the anthropologist and father of structuralism, died on Friday. He was a hundred years old. In the February 3, 1968, issue of The New Yorker, Janet Flanner (a.k.a. Gênet) ...

PARIS – 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 ...

Claude Lévi-Strauss, the anthropologist and philosopher, has died. He was 100 years old. He was the son of a portrait painter, the grandson of a rabbi, and the great-grandson of a violinist. He was ...

PARIS — After weeks crossing the high seas, Claude Levi-Strauss breathed in his first lungful of the New World, a perfume tinged with pepper or tobacco. The sensory awakening was the start of a ...

THE RAW AND THE COOKED by Claude Lévi-Strauss Harper & Row, $10.00 Two young anthropologists I know are doing fieldwork with some (presumably) lapsed headhunters in the Philippines. They wrote to me ...

Patrick Wilcken first interviewed the celebrated French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss in 2005. For Mr. Wilcken an audience with the great man must have been a daunting occasion: Mr. Wilcken had a ...

Claude Lévi-Strauss, defining French anthropologist of the twentieth century, has died at the age of 100. For devotees and dilettantes who know of the "anthropology god" (as Gawker calls him) what ...

PARIS — Claude Levi-Strauss, 100, widely considered the father of modern anthropology for work that included theories about commonalities between tribal and industrial societies, has died. The French ...

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 ...