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Pierre Bourdieu on Claude Lévi-Strauss

In memory of Claude Lévi-Strauss, who died ealier this week, here's a lovely clip of the late Pierre Bourdieu explaining how Lévi-Strauss reimagined the role of the intellectual.

 

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