Claude Lévi-Strauss, one of France's greatest thinkers, the founder of modern anthropology, has died just a few weeks before his 101st birthday. A great man, philosopher, explorer, traveller and music lover,he collaborated with Roman Jakobson and was inspired by his structural linguistics in his anthropological and social sciences studies.
Here is an interview from 1984 for the programme Apostrophes, where Lévi-Strauss discusses his work:
http://www.ina.fr/sciences-et-techniques/sciences-humaines/video/I06292950/claude-levi-strauss-definit-l-ethnologie.fr.html
