Remember Claude Levi-Strauss

Claude Levi-Strauss, the pioneering French anthropologist, has passed away at the age of 100. Though his research into "primitive" cultures was extensive, the thinker was rarely documented on film. Luckily, Facets Video's Claude Levi-Strauss in His Own Words amasses years of interviews in which the intellectual plainly discusses his groundbreaking theories on culture and mythology.

This French television documentary recounts the extraordinary career of the father of structural anthropology, whose theories not only impacted that field, but linguistics, mythology, and pop culture studies. Author of Tristes Tropiques and The Savage Mind, Levi-Strauss is a profound intellectual, a confirmed ecologist, a fierce defender of the diversity of peoples and cultures, and all with the temperament of an artist or poet. Consisting of selected interviews from the 1960s through the present, Claude Levi-Strauss Par Lui-Meme presents the anthropologist's story in his own words.

Claude Levi-Strauss in His Own Words is available for purchase at Facets.