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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One Response to Claude Levi-Strauss Dies at 100
princeton67 - November 3, 2009 at 7:00 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.