The sad news has just arrived that Claude Lévi-Strauss, who celebrated his 100th birthday less than a year ago, has passed away. See the coverage in the New York Times, Le Monde, Le Figaro, The Atlantic Wire, and an extensive obituary by Maurice Bloch in The Guardian. I think that one of the comments written in response to the NYT article puts it very well: “There are moments when it hits you that the 20th century has ended.”
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AMA citation:
Raikhel E. Claude Lévi-Strauss est mort. Somatosphere. 2009. Available at: http://somatosphere.net/2009/11/claude-levi-strauss-est-mort.html. Accessed February 4, 2012.
APA citation:
Raikhel, Eugene. (2009). Claude Lévi-Strauss est mort. Retrieved February 4, 2012, from Somatosphere Web site: http://somatosphere.net/2009/11/claude-levi-strauss-est-mort.html
Chicago citation:
Raikhel, Eugene. 2009. Claude Lévi-Strauss est mort. Somatosphere. http://somatosphere.net/2009/11/claude-levi-strauss-est-mort.html (accessed February 4, 2012).
Harvard citation:
Raikhel, E 2009, Claude Lévi-Strauss est mort, Somatosphere. Retrieved February 4, 2012, from <http://somatosphere.net/2009/11/claude-levi-strauss-est-mort.html>
MLA citation:
Raikhel, Eugene. "Claude Lévi-Strauss est mort." 3 Nov. 2009. Somatosphere. Accessed 4 Feb. 2012. <http://somatosphere.net/2009/11/claude-levi-strauss-est-mort.html>
For French readers, Liberation has a very nicely put set of articles. Some are good introductions to his thought and others reflect on his "print".