The anthropological blog world is filled with mourning this week after the death of Claude Lévi-Strauss. Lévi-Strauss is best known in anthropology as the founder of structuralist theory. However, the scope of his impact on anthropology is far broader. To learn more about Claude Lévi-Strauss and his impacts on anthropology please visit some of the resources listed below.
About Claude Lévi-Strauss
Eulogies from the Blogosphere and News
- Savage Minds - Remembering Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Cognition and Culture – Scott Atron: A Memory of Lévi-Strauss
- The Guardian – Claude Lévi-Strauss Obituary
- The New York Times – Claude Lévi-Strauss, 100, Dies; Altered Western Views of the Primitive
- AAA Blog – My Teacher, ClaudeLévi-Strauss
- AAA Blog - On the Anthropology of Claude Lévi Strauss by Marshall Sahlins (Posted after Lévi-Strass’ 100th Birthday)
The Works of Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Lévi-Strauss, C. (1969). The raw and the cooked. New York: Harper & Row.
- Lévi-Strauss, C. (1985). The view from afar. New York: Basic Books.
- Lévi-Strauss, C. (1969). The elementary structures of kinship. Boston: Beacon Press.
- Lévi-Strauss, C. (1963). Structural anthropology. New York: Basic Books.
- Lévi-Strauss, C. (1966). The savage mind. The Nature of human society series. [Chicago]: University of Chicago Press.
- Lévi-Strauss, C. (1974). Tristes tropiques. New York: Atheneum.
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Tags: Anthropology, Lévi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology, Structuralism, The Savage Mind, Triste Tropiques