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Here’s an interesting piece from Global-e: One day, way back in the 20th century, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Roland Barthes sat under an equatorial tree, living in their own imagined primitive...
French intellectual Claude Lévi-Strauss died at the age of 100 last month, before he could comment on the latest single from Lady Gaga. If you think this an absurd notion, note that Lévi-Strauss's major project—discovering the...
Claude Lévi-Strauss, often referred to as “the father of modern anthropology,” was renowned in life for his unifying theories and sociological bridging between tribal and “civilized” cultures. The French anthropologist, who...
Stanislas Dehaene holds the chair of Experimental Cognitive Psychology at the Collège de France, and he is also the director of the INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit at NeuroSpin, France’s most advanced neuroimaging...
News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Tue Nov 17, 2009 9:57 AM EST How do we find meaning, and what is the real significance of pop culture? This article touches on Michael Jackson, Claude Levi-Strauss, Ferdinand de Saussure, Noam...
In his autobiography, Gandhi relates what he calls a "tragedy." When he was a teenager, his best friend wanted to accustom him to eating meat. Gandhi's family belonged to the Vaishnava Hindu tradition in which vegetarianism is...
After weeks crossing the high seas, Claude Levi-Strauss breathed in his first lungful of the New World, a perfume tinged with pepp...
Published Friday, November 13, 2009 This week, scene was having dinner with a friend at Thai Taste, enjoying a spring roll before a heavy night’s editing. “You know that Claude Levi-Strauss died a couple of days ago,” the...
Ricky Swallow: The Bricoleur Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria. In collecting the fine timbers he will carve and in preparing his tools, Swallow is more of an engineer than a bricoleur. Woodcarving, Swallow's...
The Electronic Telegraph, Britain’s first newspaper website, was launched in November 1994. John Major, the Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1994 Photo: BRIAN SMITH Pete Sampras, winner of the Wimbledon...
