Levi Strauss 1908-2009

Levi-strauss, Claude

Claude Lévi-Strauss’s theories have been fundamental to the renewal of modern anthropology, in particular the study of kinship systems, totemism, classification, and mythology. Throughout his works, he has sought to understand the functioning of so-called “primitive” modes of thought. In opposition to the theories formulated by influential predecessors such as Lucien LévyBruhl, he has revealed ...

CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS: The Man and His Works

Doja The shoulders of our giants : Claude Levi - Strauss and his legacy in current ́ anthropology

In the course of anti-structuralist criticism, the main thrust of LéviStrauss’s epistemological approach seems to have been lost, to the collective detriment of social sciences and anthropology. By its monumental character, Lévi-Strauss’s work evokes that of the founders of anthropology, whereas, by the way in which it puts in relation the cultural and the mental, it anticipates a theoretical a...

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A novel approach to “direct-write” negative nano-lithography, based on biological specificity, where a proteolytic enzyme is used to etch grooves in a hardened protein layer. We are using trypsin to engrave features in a BSA layer, while flowing the trypsin solution via a nano-pipette (controlled by a SPM) to the surface. Trypsin is a proteolytic enzyme that cleaves very specifically on the car...

Leon Chesley (1908-2000)

Leon Chesley studied hypertension, or high blood pressure, in pregnant women during the mid-twentieth century. Chesley studied preeclampsia and eclampsia, two hypertensive disorders found in approximately five percent of all US pregnancies. In New Jersey and New York, Chesley devoted over forty years to researching preeclampsia and eclampsia, and conducted several long-term studies using the sa...