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1908 – 2009Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-2009)Died 30 October 2009, aged 100Levi-Strauss was a French anthropologist regarded as the founder of structural anthropology, whose work on kinship and myth reshaped the social sciences. His books, including Tristes Tropiques and The Savage Mind, influenced fields far beyond anthropology. He was elected to the Academie francaise in 1973.