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French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss dies at age 100

The man known as the founder of the Structuralism school of Anthropology led a life of exotic travel, high recognition, and significant contribution to his field. Living and teaching in Paris, Brazil, and New York Strauss began his academic life in philosophy and sociology, before embarking on his own ethnographic studies. His 1964 book Le Cru et el Cuit (The Raw and the Cooked) examines the fundamental shift in human identity that coincided with eating cooked food instead of raw animals and plants.   Lévi-Strauss was awarded France’s highest scientific distinction, was a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences, and was a member of the prestigious French Academy.

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