The Academie Francaise announced Nov. 3, 2009 that influential French intellectual Claude Levi-Strauss has died. Levi-Strauss was widely considered the father of modern anthropology. He was 100. Levi-Strauss was widely regarded as having reshaped the field of anthropology, introducing new concepts concerning common patterns of behavior and thought, especially myths, in primitive and modern societies.
Newsday's obituary for Claude Levi-Strauss Credit: AP, 1967
