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Claude Levi-Strauss, 100: Reshaped field of anthropology

November 3, 2009
Angela Doland Associated Press
The Toronto Star, Nov. 3, 2009
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Claude Levi-Strauss, seen here in a Jan. 13, 1967 file photo, is widely considered to be the father of modern anthropology. The Academie Francaise says he has died at the age of 100.

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PARIS–Claude Levi-Strauss, widely considered the father of modern anthropology for work that included theories about commonalities between tribal and industrial societies, has died. He was 100.

The French intellectual was regarded as having reshaped the field of anthropology, introducing structuralism – concepts about common patterns of behaviour and thought, especially myths, in a wide range of human societies. Defined as the search for the underlying patterns of thought in all forms of human activity, structuralism compared the formal relationships among elements in any given system.

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