Paris, Nov 3 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The father of modern anthropology Claude Levi-Strauss has died at 100 years. He was widely known for his work that included theories about commonalities between tribal and industrial societies.

His career spanned a huge time of six decades, during which Levi-Strauss authored literary and anthropological classics including “Tristes Tropiques” (1955), “The Savage Mind” (1963) and “The Raw and the Cooked” (1964).

The Academie Française said on Tuesday that it planned a tribute for the eminent French intellectual, later in the week.

He died over the weekend, according to the office of the president of the School for the Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, in Paris.

Levi-Strauss was interested in mythology and once said: “I claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men’s minds without their being aware of the fact.”

The eminent French intellectual Claude Levi-Strauss was widely respected for having reshaped the field of anthropology, introducing structuralism which are actually concepts about common patterns of behavior and thought, especially myths, in a wide range of human societies.

He was born in Brussels on Nov 28, 1908, into an affluent French Jewish family. His father was an artist. He had studied law at the University of Paris and philosophy at the Sorbonne.