I used to obsessively read his books when I was about 14 and wanted to be an anthropologist! Very sad at his passing but he lived to a ripe old age and enjoyed a very interesting life and inspired many people

Yup, but he was the beginning of an era wasn't he? That said anthropology hasn't changed for ever (says a sociologist )

Cocolepaw,

I was surprised that he was still alive He did get to a fine age.

Nick Nemo - Au contraire, the world of anthropology will be the same again: the same structure will turn up again and again and again....

How sad, I loved his jeans.

Oh no!!! The world of anthropology will never be the same.

Another great of French intellectualism gone....

Definitely end of an era. Now we have tossers like Bernard Henri-Levi posturing with bryoneque shirts and women a third of his age...

Wow. i had no idea he was still alive. He was, like, ... the twentieth century ... .

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Here's the obituary in The Guardian.

End of an intellectual era, I suppose. I remember being amazed to discover that he was still alive when I was an undergraduate. He seemed so much like a figure from some mythical intellectual past, peopled by such figures as Sartre, Foucault, Barthes, etc.

RIP.