Claude Levi Strauss

Why Writers Write the Crazy Books They Write

Claudia Ricci | Posted 08.19.2011

Claudia Ricci

Why writers write what they write is an endlessly interesting topic, or at least it is to those of us who spend our lives writing.

Arizona: the Other as Enemy

Aldo Civico | Posted 05.25.2011

Aldo Civico

On the day the governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer, signed an outrageous immigration law, I was at the JFK airport in New York about to embark on a one-mo...

Claude Levi-Strauss, French Anthropologist, Dies

AP | ANGELA DOLAND | Posted 05.25.2011

PARIS — After weeks crossing the high seas, Claude Levi-Strauss breathed in his first lungful of the New World, a perfume tinged with pepper or ...

Why We Must Put an End to the Debate Over National Identity

Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 05.25.2011

Bernard-Henri Lévy

If Claude Levi-Strauss left us a lesson, it was simply that the word "identity" applies to subjects, not to communities; it can be used in the plural, never in the singular.

A Memory of Claude Lévi-Strauss

Scott Atran | Posted 11.17.2011

Scott Atran

In 1974, when I was a graduate student in anthropology at Columbia University, I wanted to organize a discussion of universals. At the time, I was working for Margaret Mead as one of her assistants.