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Claude Lvi-Strauss 克洛德列维-斯特劳斯 Claude Lvi-Strauss, anthropologist, died onOctober 30th, aged 100. 人类学家克洛德列维-斯特劳斯于10月30日逝世，享年100岁。 Before Claude Lvi-Strauss revolutionised thediscipline, anthropology in France, and generally elsewhere, was a matter of ill-attendedlectures in small, cold halls, and the collection of feathers and fish-hooks as evidence of thequaint divergences of the primitive tribes of mankind. He made it as fashionable asphilosophy and poetry, both of which he wove through his ethnographical studies as perhapsonly French intellectuals can. The proper study of mankind was indeed man: not in hispoliticking, warring or banking, but naked, painting his body, hunting bears, snaring birds.Here lay the universal truths about how the human mind worked and what man was. 在克洛德列维-斯特劳斯变革这门学科之前，无论在法国，还是世界其它地方，人类学普遍是下面的情形：又小又冷的讲堂，冷冷清清的课堂，各色的羽毛和鱼钩。列维-斯特劳斯让人类学变成了和哲学、诗歌一样时髦的东西，并把这两种元素融入进自己的民族学著作中，这恐怕只有法国的知识分子才办得到。研究人类就应该纯粹去研究人：不是披着政客、士兵或银行家外衣的那类人，而是赤身裸体、肤着油彩、猎熊捕鸟的这类人。这里存在着关于人类思考模式及人之本性的普遍真理。 | 
