ASU doctoral candidate Thompson pays tribute to Levi-Strauss
Claude Levi-Strauss, who died at the age of 100 on Oct. 30, 2009, is being remembered as a pioneering social scientist, whose work was imparted as foundational in anthropology classrooms around the world.
Archaeologist M. Scott Thompson, an Arizona
He is quoted in a Nov. 4 CNN article about the influential anthropologist.
In the piece, Thompson—whose research interests include complex societies, Mississippian archaeology and chiefdoms—provides his take on Levi-Strauss’ contributions to the field of anthropology and stresses the importance of his ideas in understanding the formation of cultures.
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