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Claude Levi-Strauss, influential anthropologist, dies at 100

Nov. 3, 2009
Levi-Strauss is credited with introducing the subject of structuralism, which seeks common patterns among human societies. The French intellectual also wrote literary and anthropological classics. Claude Levi-Strauss, widely considered the father of modern anthropology for work that included...
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