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Claude Lévi-Strauss, 100, 'The Father Of Modern Anthropology'
"Part philosopher, part sociologist and entirely humanist, he studied tribes in Brazil and North America, concluding that virtually all societies shared powerful commonalities of behavior and thought, often expressing them in myths." Lévi-Strauss called those commonalities "structures," and his insight was the basis of the school of thought known as "structuralism." Los Angeles Times 11/04/09
"Part philosopher, part sociologist and entirely humanist, he studied tribes in Brazil and North America, concluding that virtually all societies shared powerful commonalities of behavior and thought, often expressing them in myths." Lévi-Strauss called those commonalities "structures," and his insight was the basis of the school of thought known as "structuralism." Los Angeles Times 11/04/09
Posted November 3, 2009 10:27 PM
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