Sunday, November 23, 2008

Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss Turns 100

NPR audio documentary by Frank Browning on All Things Considered, November 23, 2008

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This week in Paris, one of the last icons of 20th century French intellectual life turns 100. Claude Levi-Strauss not only reshaped the nature of how anthropologists do their work, he changed the world's perception of so-called "primitive" tribes in Asia, Africa and America.

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