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Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss Turns 100 [audio 6 min 20 sec]

This week in Paris, one of the last icons of 20th century French intellectual life turns 100. Claude Levi-Strauss, a painter's son, not only reshaped the nature of how anthropologists do their work: He changed the world's perception of so-called "primitive" tribes in Asia, Africa and America.

Read entire article at National Public Radio: All Things Considered