Claude Levi-Strauss: Father of Structural Anthropology Dies at 100

Claude Levi-Strauss was a French anthropologist and ethnologist. Born on November 28, 1908, in Brussels, he grew up in Paris and studied law and philosophy.

He did fieldwork in Brazil in the 1930s and developed structural anthropology, which looks for universal mental structures in myths, kinship and culture. His works include Tristes Tropiques, The Elementary Structures of Kinship and The Raw and the Cooked.

He taught at the College de France and was a member of the Academie Francaise. Levi-Strauss died in Paris on October 30, 2009, at age 100.

Achievements: Founder of structural anthropology, Academie Francaise.

Birth: November 28, 1908 - Brussels, Belgium.

Profession: Anthropologist.

Interesting Facts: He lived to be 100.