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The Influence of Claude Lévi-Strauss - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.c

November 3, 2009, 3:26 pm As my colleague Edward Rothstein writes in his obituary of Claude Lévi-Strauss , whose death at the age of 100 was announced on Tuesday, the great anthropologist “was a profound influence even on his critics.” One of the many French thinkers who felt the impact of his books was the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, who explained in the television interview excerpted below that he had read the works of Mr. Lévi-Strauss as a “sort of practical anti-racist manifesto.” Perhaps the most influential of Mr.