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French anthropologist Levi-Strauss dies at 100

Source: Reuters
São Paulo : Brazil | about 1 month ago  
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  • Handout file photo of French intellectual Claude Levi-Strauss
    Handout file photo of French intellectual Claude Levi-Strauss
    Source: Reuters
Handout file photo of French intellectual Claude Levi-Strauss
French intellectual Claude Levi-Strauss, the founder of structural anthropology, has died at the age of 100, his publishing house Plon said on Tuesday. Levi-Strauss, who was known to a wider public thanks to his 1955 memoir and masterpiece, "Tristes Tropiques," died on Saturday.
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