R.I.P, Claude Levi-Strauss

[Bugbear]

Just read that the French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss passed away; rest in peace.

[vmac3205]

He was 100. A lilfe well lived.

[Galician]

Having been taught by Margaret Mead, who was one of his protégés, I guess I can say that he had a somewhat direct influence in my own career. R.I.P.

[Bugbear]

Wow! That's interesting.

Claude Levi-Strauss comes up quite a bit in my reading, along with Joseph Campbell, and C. G. Jung.

I'll keep an eye out for citations of Margaret Mead. I have seen her books at the library.

* Oops, I have one of her books.

[beloitpiper]

Levi-Strauss was big-time required reading for me. Definitely a big influence.

[Oldhiker]

Ok I am going to be the edjit.... Levi Strauss any connection to the blue jeans?

[joecool]

I remember studying Levi Strauss when I was getting my BS in Anthropology. He had a brilliant mind, and was blessed with a long life; who could really asks for more?! He will be sorely missed.
And no Oldhiker, he was not connected to the blue jeans

[Bugbear]

His work with mythology, the Structuralist approach, is important to me. I won't go into why.

He did come up in college anthropology courses, and I think, in a folklore course. That would have been in the nineties; anyway, I'm sure he influenced all of us in, at least, an indirect way.

[Galician]

Well, OldHiker, if one wants to be precise, he was a member of the same tribe as the developer of blue jeans, so, yes, he was connected, just like all McDonald's would be to the Golden Arches.

Just to make it clear, this man's name was Claude Lévi-Strauss, while blue jeans were developed by Levi Strauss.

[string]

Levi-Strauss was some of the readings that I actually enjoyed. I will be finishing a BA in Anthropology in December. Evidently Levi-Strass was still pretty active until fairly recently. A truly great anthropologist