Claude Levi-Strauss has died at the age of 100. Have you heard of him?

Of course
I can’t imagine someone in the world who would not know who this magnificent man is. No, I refuse to imagine it.

yes, but I assumed he was dead ages ago, no idea he lived to be that old.

Yes, of course.

The jeans maker or the French anthropologist and intellectual?

what are you, a bissel meshuggah?

Yes. This sounds morbid, but he’s one of my regular picks in a Dead Pool; he died between events.

Putting someone who is 100 on your dead pool won’t get you many points.
Should have gone with Michael Jackson. Dancers are supposed to live forever.

@filmfann, We usually play first three out of ten. If no one wins within a year, we ante up a second time.

The name sounded familiar—had to look him up to see who he was. I did not know that.

Know of him but have yet to read him. Tonight’s free. Maybe I’ll mosey over to the liberry and read something to pay my respects.

Yes.

Being Dpn’s sister, yes, I knew about Levi-Strauss’s work and also that he had just died.

in college i took a class on the art of the indians of the northwest coast, the kwakiutl, and we had to buy a book that he wrote.

Yes, I know who he is. Any decent storyteller, historian or anthropologist knows of him, or should. He surpassed Joseph Campbell in the breadth and depth of his work, IMO.

I guess he’s pretty much post structualist now.

(psst- structuralist)