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French Anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss Dies Aged 100

Posted at 7:03AM Wednesday 04 Nov 2009

France was paying tribute tonight to one of its greatest intellectuals, the social anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, who has died at the age of 100.

The structuralist thinker, who devoted his five-decade career to the study of the human species around the world, is credited with having revolutionised the study of anthropology for the 20th century.

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