Lévi-StraussAcademic, writer, figure of melancholy, aesthete Claude Lvi Strauss (19082009) not only transformed his academic discipline, he also profoundly changed the way that we view ourselves and the world around us. In this award winning biography, historian Emmanuelle Loyer recounts Lvi Strausss childhood in an assimilated Jewish household, his promising student years as well as his first forays into political and intellectual movements. As a young