Claude Lévi-Strauss has died.

[Penthesileia]

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.

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

[inarticulate, low-brow response]

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...

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

How sad, I loved his jeans.

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....

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 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