Claude Lévi-Strauss, the French social anthropologist and thinker considered the father of structural anthropology, died on 30 October at the age of 100. His great many books including The Elementary Structures of Kinship, A World on the Wane and The Savage Mind have been hugely influential in contemporary art theory among other disciplines. The son of an artist and grandson of a composer, Lévi-Strauss was also versed in music and enjoyed the friendship of avant-garde artists Max Ernst, André Breton, and Marcel Duchamp among others.
