Important french anthropologist died

The article talk about Lévi-Strauss and his died. Mention that He was an important anthropologist of the 20th century.

Also said that is a structuralist thinker that dedicated 50 years for studied human species.

The news was communicated for the Paris's School for the Advanced Studies of Social Sciences.

The most important idea of Lévi-Strauss was that he broke with the ethnocentric vision of the history of humanity, like the Foreign minister said. So the important of this anthropologist is also contemporary.

Another opinion was from Hélène Carrère d’Encausse, a secretary of the organization of Académie Française, said that Lévi-Strauss contributed in to open the spirit of humanity, and also he was a philosopher, thinker and “We will not find another like him,".

Lévi-strauss was born in a jewish family with money. His method of structuralism is really complicate because want to found a general roule and relations that are in the thought of human, for that reason he worked with between western countries and American Indian and Amazonian tribes.

He was known in the 50^th years with her famous book The Savage Mind and the four-part Mythologique.

He had problem with Sartre and his idea of existentialist’s notion of personal freedom.

When he was old he considered that 'serene pessimism' on the life, and he used that for like a attitud to life. "Birthdays at this age have no longer have any raison d'être because there is no reason to celebrate a further step into physical and intellectual degeneration," he said.

the link of the news: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/nov/03/claude-levi-strauss-dies?INTCMP=SRCH