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Happy Birthday Mr Claude Lévi-Strauss
Today, 28 november 2008, Claude Lévi-Strauss has 100 years. When meeting in Paramaribo this year, we celebrated the 40th of the birth of the University of Suriname (see ATBC President address). This year also coincides with the 100th celebration of the birth of Claude Lévi-Strauss and the publication of his work in Bibliothèque de La Pléiade. This two-thousand pages book starts with his master piece Tristes Tropiques in the collection Terres Humaines (Plon) founded in 1955 by Jean Malaurie. Whilst everyone repeatedly cites the now-legendary first phrase “Je hais les voyages et les explorateurs” (“I hate travel and explorers”), few will add that the second following sentence is “Et voici que je m’apprête à raconter mes expéditions” (“And here, I am about to relate my expeditions”). Decades later, we are however all fortunate that Claude Lévi-Strauss as well as many explorers before him, Charles de la Condamine and Charles Darwin to cite two of them, liked writing about their hazardous journeys around the planet, thus accessible to the non-scientific community. Bon Anniversaire Mr Claude Lévi-Strauss.