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Happy 100th Birthday, Claude Levi-Strauss

by Jim Benning | 11.25.08 | 2:01 PM ET

The great structural anthropologist celebrates the big 1-0-0 on Friday in Paris. Travel lit readers know him in part from his 1955 travel memoir of sorts, Tristes Tropiques, which begins with the memorable line, “I hate travelling and explorers.” More importantly, as NPR points out, Levi-Strauss “changed the world’s perception of so-called ‘primitive’ tribes in Asia, Africa and America.”

Tags: Claude Levi-Strauss, Indigenous Peoples, Europe, France, Paris, Literary Travel