Claude Levi-Strauss (b. Nov. 28, 1908), the father of structural anthropology, died in 2009 at age 100…
Jewish French by birth, Levi-Strauss lived abroad in connection with field work on many occasions, f. ex. in Brazil. The years during WW II when France was under Nazi occupation, he spent in New York. He wrote about his expatriate years in his 1955 travel account and meditation Triste Tropiques…
“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he’s one who asks the right questions.” ― Claude Lévi-Strauss
Photo - Brazil c. 1936
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