As a student of anthropology (as a minor in university right now) I am
strongly respectful of Levi Strauss and am sad at his passing (old as
he was).
Structural Anthropology was very good.
He's on par with Durkheim, Bourdieu and Weber.
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Erik Hoogcarspel <jehms@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Chetan Vemuri schreef:
>> So this may have little to do with Foucault and was already posted
>> before perhaps but what are everyone's thoughts on the death of one of
>> the last remaining French intellectual icons, Claude Levi Strauss?
>> He was 100-101 years old.
>>
>>
>>
> He was a fine philosopher, teacher of Pierre Bourdieu, great renewer of
> anthropology and midwife of the postmodern fase in our culture. I loved
> his Anthropologie Structurale and La Pensee Suavage has become a classic.
>
> erik
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strongly respectful of Levi Strauss and am sad at his passing (old as
he was).
Structural Anthropology was very good.
He's on par with Durkheim, Bourdieu and Weber.
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Erik Hoogcarspel <jehms@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Chetan Vemuri schreef:
>> So this may have little to do with Foucault and was already posted
>> before perhaps but what are everyone's thoughts on the death of one of
>> the last remaining French intellectual icons, Claude Levi Strauss?
>> He was 100-101 years old.
>>
>>
>>
> He was a fine philosopher, teacher of Pierre Bourdieu, great renewer of
> anthropology and midwife of the postmodern fase in our culture. I loved
> his Anthropologie Structurale and La Pensee Suavage has become a classic.
>
> erik
> _______________________________________________
> Foucault-L mailing list
>
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Chetan Vemuri
West Des Moines, IA
aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx
(319)-512-9318
"You say you want a Revolution! Well you know, we all want to change the world"