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November 03, 2009, 04:52 PM ET

Claude Levi-Strauss Dies at 100

Claude Lévi-Strauss, one of the most distinguished anthropologists of the 20th century, has died at the age of 100, according to reports from the BBC and The New York Times. In a series of major works published between 1949 and 1971, Mr. Lévi-Strauss argued that material objects, kinship patterns, and ordinary conversations can all be interpreted as elements of a universal, unconscious process of cultural "structuration." In The Chronicle's Brainstorm blog last November, Eric Banks reflected on Mr. Lévi-Strauss's work.

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1. princeton67 - November 03, 2009 at 07:00 pm

"Lévi-Strauss argued that material objects, kinship patterns, and ordinary conversations can all be interpreted as elements of a universal, unconscious process of cultural 'structuration'."

Cultural structuration = the anthropological equivalent of Jung's psychological Archetype = ...of Michael Schneider's Mathematical Archetypes = ....Zuzana Martináková-Rendeková's Musical Archetypes = ...Dawkin's meme...and so on.

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