Here’s the New York Times’ special reportage on his 100th birthday last year.
If you haven’t been to the multi-cultural ethnographic arts centre which was Lévi-Strauss’ brainchild, the wonderful Musée Quai Branly in Paris, you should go next time you’re in town. It beats the smile out of the Mona Lisa.
Claude Lévi-Strauss was two weeks’ short of 101 years old, and his shit still rocked. That’s all I have to say about that.