Octopus of Odstock 2,197 Posted May 4, 2008 Mr. Octopus, you is a fool. I never said Mr. Levi-Strauss has a terminal disease. I said only Levi-Strauss' health is declining last years. This eminent anthropologist hasn't given interviews since 2005. Besides, some influential members of French Academy has declared Mr. Levi-Strauss must die very soon. I don't write at this forum because you. I don't give a damn to your opinions. If you are at the French Academy, then you must know it is: -You ARE a fool. You IS a fool sounds like this man:- If you read as well as you claim to think, please take look at your posts above, you DID indeed say CLS has a terminal disease - Parkinson's. You said he was immobile & hadn't been out since 2005. Just read the posts on this & the last page. Can't be much a fool if I can read & you can't? Not giving interviews is not a sign of imminent death. Van Johnson hasn't given interviews for nearly 25 years but he's still around, metal head 'n' all. Besides, some influential members of French Academy has declared Mr. Levi-Strauss must die very soon. Blimey! That's thanks for you. Bloody Frenchies, always killing their own. Well if they want him dead so much, why don't they just get on with it? Can't take that much to overcome an apparently near-death 99 year old with Parkinson's who doesn't go out. Maybe they can grease the spiral staircase... I declare Heather Mills must die very soon but what I want & what I get are two complete different things. Besides, why only respond to me & not to Canadian Paul (sorry CP) saying you were bullshitting? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Canadian Paul 97 Posted May 4, 2008 Besides, why only respond to me & not to Canadian Paul (sorry CP) saying you were bullshitting? Hey hey, don't get me involved in this. Vive le Quebec libre!!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Octopus of Odstock 2,197 Posted May 4, 2008 On that note, why is C L-S not in the Belgian Academy, considering he is one of them? Is it because he wasn't good enough for them or because there isn't one? Answers on a postcard please... (I mean Monoclinic, there must be some academy for Belgians? Surely Belgium's finest minds are not being nicked by the French as their own all the time? Scandalous if so.....) Oh, I just re-read the whole thread. Our emiment guest said C L-S death was "very close" in November 2005. About as close as Belgium will get to being a world superpower.... Actually this makes the thread a bit more interesting because the man himself is even more boring than Ingmar Bergman. He looks like he could do with a good night out on the pull. Sorry, I'm being silly now. Demob happy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Jean-Paul Sartre Posted May 5, 2008 Octopus, I comitted a evident lapse when putted "is" after "you". Claude Levi-Strauss is a French citizen. He is born in Brussels, but his parents were French. Claude Levi-Strauss is a distinguished member of the French Academy since 1973. He succeed the French prominent writer Henry de Montherlant in the French Academy. Mr. Levi-Strauss has suffered from Parkinson's disease for the last years, unfortunetaly. Parkinson's is a progressive disease. The fight of Pope John Paul II against Parkinson's disease lasted more than 10 years. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Jean-Paul Sartre Posted May 5, 2008 Correction: Claude Levi-Strauss was born in Brussels. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest sarah Posted September 9, 2008 Does anyone know the best place to get credible info mr levi-strauss's state I have him in a "snuff club" and the kitty is approximatly £800!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
halleluyahjohntudor 5 Posted September 10, 2008 Does anyone know the best place to get credible info mr levi-strauss's state Not here, evidently Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
InquilineKea 75 Posted November 28, 2008 It's his 100th birthday today but there aren't any English articles mentioning it. I ran the French ones through Google Translate and got at this: AFP: L'Académie française honore son centenaire, Claude Lévi-Strauss http://news.google.com/news?sourceid=navcl...86085&hl=fr Recherche Google : http://translate.google.com/translate?u=ht...p;ie=ISO-8859-1 Translated version of http://www.latribune.fr/culture/livres-bd/...euse-fete-.html http://translate.google.com/translate?u=ht...p;ie=ISO-8859-1 Translated version of http://www.letemps.ch/template/culture.asp...;article=244939 http://translate.google.com/translate?u=ht...=1&ie=UTF-8 Translated version of http://www.24heures.ch/actu/claude-levi-st...aire-2008-11-26 == so basically all that I can ascertain is that he "recently" said "if I am still alive it is only accidentally" and that he didnt attend the celebrations in honor of his 100th birthday. so I dont even know if he's still aware or not; of whether or not he's close to death now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Michael S Collins Posted November 28, 2008 Well, as far as I am aware, the man is still working in Paris about once a week which suggests he's not doing too badly. Mind you, at 100, he's closer to death than he is his pension age. But still, a great milestone. Happy birthday to the man. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Guest Posted November 28, 2008 I guess Claude Lévi-Strauss is near of death. There aren't any recent interviews or images of him. Besides, Lévi-Strauss didn't attend to meeting at French Academy that paid tribute to him. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TAFKAG 70 Posted November 28, 2008 It's his 100th birthday today but there aren't any English articles mentioning it. Allez Claude, I knew you could do it. Not quite Dunn, but a DL legend in his own little understated Frenchy way. Now die, you twat, and be quick about it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Christian Posted November 28, 2008 So, here we are: yet another birthday of the greateat anthropologist ever to have lived - and which one!! Congratulations to professor Claude Gustave Lévi-Strauss on his 100th birthday on this friday november 28, 2008. I remember entering this site for the first time five years ago, reading one of the first posts predicting that "Claude must be brickin' it by now", and ever since more had predicted the very-soon-to-be-death of Claude Lévi-Strauss. Well, no one so far has proved to be right, and hopefully I'll be back next year, as every year, to celebrate yet another birthday of this great FRENCH anthropologist! No wonder that no English sites has mentioned anything about today's event: Can anyone just mention one English or american anthropologist/ethnologist/sociologist that, as an individual, has had the same amount of influence in the 20th century like professor Lévi-Strauss (the next to mention would probaly be someone like Michel Foucault or Pierre Bourdieu, both French as well)? An act of pure jealousy? I will continue to celebrate the work of this great thinker that has never ceased to be an inspiration for me at a personal, intellectual and spiritual level. And it's a good feeling to know that the man is still around! And to those of you who wonders "why the enthusiasm?", I can only say: Read his autobiography "Tristes Tropiques" and you will know why... Congratulations to professor Claude Lévi-Strauss! See you all next year Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Guest Posted November 28, 2008 So, here we are: yet another birthday of the greateat anthropologist ever to have lived - and which one!! Congratulations to professor Claude Gustave Lévi-Strauss on his 100th birthday on this friday november 28, 2008.I remember entering this site for the first time five years ago, reading one of the first posts predicting that "Claude must be brickin' it by now", and ever since more had predicted the very-soon-to-be-death of Claude Lévi-Strauss. Well, no one so far has proved to be right, and hopefully I'll be back next year, as every year, to celebrate yet another birthday of this great FRENCH anthropologist! No wonder that no English sites has mentioned anything about today's event: Can anyone just mention one English or american anthropologist/ethnologist/sociologist that, as an individual, has had the same amount of influence in the 20th century like professor Lévi-Strauss (the next to mention would probaly be someone like Michel Foucault or Pierre Bourdieu, both French as well)? An act of pure jealousy? I will continue to celebrate the work of this great thinker that has never ceased to be an inspiration for me at a personal, intellectual and spiritual level. And it's a good feeling to know that the man is still around! And to those of you who wonders "why the enthusiasm?", I can only say: Read his autobiography "Tristes Tropiques" and you will know why... Congratulations to professor Claude Lévi-Strauss! See you all next year Come back! I want to ask if you go round lots of fora on Claude's birthday or are we singled out for special privilege? Oh well, you can answer next year, I suppose. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Monoclinic 39 Posted November 28, 2008 So, here we are: yet another birthday of the greateat anthropologist ever to have lived - and which one!! Congratulations to professor Claude Gustave Lévi-Strauss on his 100th birthday on this friday november 28, 2008.I remember entering this site for the first time five years ago, reading one of the first posts predicting that "Claude must be brickin' it by now", and ever since more had predicted the very-soon-to-be-death of Claude Lévi-Strauss. Well, no one so far has proved to be right, and hopefully I'll be back next year, as every year, to celebrate yet another birthday of this great FRENCH anthropologist! No wonder that no English sites has mentioned anything about today's event: Can anyone just mention one English or american anthropologist/ethnologist/sociologist that, as an individual, has had the same amount of influence in the 20th century like professor Lévi-Strauss (the next to mention would probaly be someone like Michel Foucault or Pierre Bourdieu, both French as well)? An act of pure jealousy? I will continue to celebrate the work of this great thinker that has never ceased to be an inspiration for me at a personal, intellectual and spiritual level. And it's a good feeling to know that the man is still around! And to those of you who wonders "why the enthusiasm?", I can only say: Read his autobiography "Tristes Tropiques" and you will know why... Congratulations to professor Claude Lévi-Strauss! See you all next year It's because we were all too busy doing instead of thinking about doing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anubis the Jackal 77 Posted November 28, 2008 (ATJ Thinks about responding, ponders the futility of it all, shrugs, eats some stinky cheese and lights another Gitane) "Pah! Ouf! etc." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Guest Posted November 28, 2008 Claude Lévi-Strauss could't attend a ceremony have placed today at Quai Branly Museum for health reasons according to Valérie Précresse, French Minister for Higher Education and Research. http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/actualites/...evistrauss.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest anthro_student Posted November 28, 2008 It seems only fitting I'm writing an essay for university that's based around Levi-Strauss' bricoleur theory on his 100th! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Windsor 2,233 Posted November 29, 2008 Claude Lévi-Strauss could't attend a ceremony have placed today at Quai Branly Museum for health reasons according to Valérie Précresse, French Minister for Higher Education and Research. http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/actualites/...evistrauss.html Or maybe he decided that there were better ways to celebrate his 100th birthday. He decided to opt for a piss up instead. Edit: Where is ie+? I thought she might have a thing or two to say about this mans persistence to live. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest N. Fritz Posted November 29, 2008 So, here we are: yet another birthday of the greateat anthropologist ever to have lived - and which one!! Congratulations to professor Claude Gustave Lévi-Strauss on his 100th birthday on this friday november 28, 2008.I remember entering this site for the first time five years ago, reading one of the first posts predicting that "Claude must be brickin' it by now", and ever since more had predicted the very-soon-to-be-death of Claude Lévi-Strauss. Well, no one so far has proved to be right, and hopefully I'll be back next year, as every year, to celebrate yet another birthday of this great FRENCH anthropologist! No wonder that no English sites has mentioned anything about today's event: Can anyone just mention one English or american anthropologist/ethnologist/sociologist that, as an individual, has had the same amount of influence in the 20th century like professor Lévi-Strauss (the next to mention would probaly be someone like Michel Foucault or Pierre Bourdieu, both French as well)? An act of pure jealousy? I will continue to celebrate the work of this great thinker that has never ceased to be an inspiration for me at a personal, intellectual and spiritual level. And it's a good feeling to know that the man is still around! And to those of you who wonders "why the enthusiasm?", I can only say: Read his autobiography "Tristes Tropiques" and you will know why... Congratulations to professor Claude Lévi-Strauss! See you all next year Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest N. Fritz Posted November 29, 2008 Can anyone just mention one English or american anthropologist/ethnologist/sociologist that, as an individual, has had the same amount of influence in the 20th century like professor Lévi-Strauss (the next to mention would probaly be someone like Michel Foucault or Pierre Bourdieu, both French as well)? An act of pure jealousy? Mary Leakey, Jane Goodall, Joseph Campbell... (sorry about the misfire above!) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
deadsox 894 Posted November 29, 2008 Margaret Mead? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Guest Posted November 29, 2008 Clifford Geertz? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anubis the Jackal 77 Posted December 2, 2008 Barry Chuckle? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Guest Posted December 4, 2008 The current health condition of Claude Lévi-Strauss seems be critical. People close to Lévi-Strauss believe the death of him can happen next days or weeks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phantom 2,533 Posted December 5, 2008 The current health condition of Claude Lévi-Strauss seems be critical. People close to Lévi-Strauss believe the death of him can happen next days or weeks. If that's the case, reveal your source in order to substantiate that claim Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
