End of an Era

摘要

Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, a towering figure in 20th century anthropology, died in Paris on 31 October, a few weeks shy of his 101st birthday.rnLevi-Strauss introduced "structuralism" to anthropology: the concept that all societies follow certain universal patterns of thought and behavior, as exemplified in their myths. "The ultimate original principle of structuralism [is] that the forms of cultural order reflect general underlying laws of the human mind," says social anthropologist Marshall Sahlins of the University of Chicago in Illinois.