Patrick Wilcken first interviewed the celebrated French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss in 2005. For Mr. Wilcken an audience with the great man must have been a daunting occasion: Mr. Wilcken had a ...
Claude Lévi-Strauss (28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist, born in Belgium to French-Jewish parents living in Bruxelles, whose work was key in the ...
With a sharp eye for cultural patterns and a keen feel for the shape of a story, Claude Lévi-Strauss was a poet in the laboratory of anthropology. When Claude Lévi-Strauss died a little over a year ...