Claude Levi-Strauss, Scientist Who Saw Human Doom, Dies at 100


	Claude Levi-Strauss, Scientist Who Saw Human Doom, Dies at 100

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11-3-2009 6:59 PM

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11-5-2009 12:50 AM

Jorjor

I read a fair amount of Levi-Strauss' material when I was in college and grad school. Structuralism was a big thing back then.

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