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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
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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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