Claude Levi-Strauss, French Intellectual Dies, 100 years old

by Sudha Krishna | November 3, 2009 at 03:41 pm

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Claude Levi-Strauss scientist, athropologist, intellectuall has died at the age of 100.

"He was France's greatest scientist," said writer Jean d'Ormesson, fellow member of the Academie Francaise which brings together the elite of the country's intellectual establishment.

Strauss one of the premier scientists who challenged the notion that Western European culture was superior - that challenge was based on his work involving tribal customes and myths which illustraed the underlying systems that are common everyone.

A philosophy and law student at the Sorbonne in Paris during the 1920s and 30s his most famous work was Tristes and Tropiques . The book was a result of Levi-Strauss' visting to Brazil betweem 1935 and 1939 where he conducted ethnographic work which provided an account social behavior among Brazillian Tribes.

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