Claude Lévi-Strauss, 100, Dies; Altered Western Views of the ‘Primitive’ (Published 2009)

Claude Lévi-Strauss, 100, Dies; Altered Western Views of the ‘Primitive’ Claude Lévi-Strauss, the French anthropologist whose revolutionary studies of what was once called “primitive man” transformed Western understanding of the nature of culture, custom and civilization, has died at 100. His son Laurent said Mr. Lévi-Strauss died of cardiac arrest Friday at his home in Paris. His death was announ