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Anthropology giant Claude Levi-Strauss dead at 100

November 3, 2009 By The Associated Press ANGELA DOLAND (Associated Press Writer)

PARIS (AP) — After weeks crossing the high seas, Claude Levi-Strauss breathed in his first lungful of the New World, a perfume tinged with pepper or tobacco. The sensory awakening was the start of a journey that turned a young Parisian scholar into a founder of modern anthropology.

On that 1930s trip that took him across the Atlantic to Latin America, Levi-Strauss' scholarly upbringing guided...

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