Claude Levi-Strauss Awarded the James Smithson Bicentennial Medal.

Esteemed French anthropologist and father of structural anthropology, Claude Lévi-Strauss, was awarded the Smithsonian Institution’s James Smithson Bicentennial Medal last week. Lévi-Strauss was nominated by the National Museum of Natural History for his “fundamental contributions to understanding the human condition and passionate personal engagement in defense of the common humanity and dignity of all peoples.” Read the Smithsonian’s press release here. (From AAA Blog: http://blog.aaanet.org/)