The Raw and the Cooked

"A powerful thinker, Mr. Lévi-Strauss was an avatar of 'structuralism,' a school of thought in which universal 'structures' were believed to underlie all human activity, giving shape to seemingly disparate cultures and creations. His work was a profound influence even on his critics, of whom there were many."

Edward Rothstein writes an obituary for Claude Lévi-Strauss in The New York Times.