A picture taken on November 4, 2009 shows the entrance of the village of Lignerolles, (eastern France) where the French anthropologist and father of structuralism, Claude Levi-Strauss, is buried at the cemetery. Levi-Strauss, who helped shape Western thinking about human civilisation, has died on October 30, 2009 at the age of 100. Levi-Strauss shot to prominence with his 1955 book 'Tristes Tropiques', considered one of the 20th century's major works. Getty Images logo Getty Images 1 month ago

A picture taken on November 4, 2009 shows the entrance of the village of Lignerolles, (eastern France) where the French anthropologist and father of structuralism, Claude Levi-Strauss, is buried at the cemetery. Levi-Strauss, who helped shape Western thinking about human civilisation, has died on October 30, 2009 at the age of 100. Levi-Strauss shot to prominence with his 1955 book 'Tristes Tropiques', considered one of the 20th century's major works.

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