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paper explores their theories and how Levi-Strauss expanded and built on Boas earlier work. Discussion On December 22, 1942, Franz Boas had a heart attack and died in the arms
of Claude L?vi-Strauss, with whom he was having lunch (Everett, 2009). Although L?vi-Strauss tried to revive him it was useless, and the "founder of American anthropology died ... in the
arms of the founder of French anthropology" (Everett, 2009). At the time, Boas was 92 but L?vi-Strauss was only 34 (Everett, 2009). With Boas death, "L?vi-Strauss assumed ... the symbolic
mantle of leadership, becoming the most important living anthropologist of the twentieth century, a distinction he maintained for another 67 years" (Everett, 2009). L?vi-Strauss died October 30, 2009, at age
100, but there was no single person to "take over" the field as he had done from Boas, and that is due to the fact that the field had expanded
under L?vi-Strauss (Everett, 2009). What did L?vi-Strauss do to expand the field and how does this relate to Boas work? Everett says that Boas "brought anthropology into linguistics, pointing
students ... at the interaction of culture and language. L?vi-Strauss brought linguistics into anthropology ..." (Everett, 2009). L?vi-Strauss made so many contributions that its not possible to summarize them, but
it seems that the consensus is that his work was principally in "kinship, myth, and a formal systematicization of anthropological theory along broadly linguistic lines" (Everett, 2009). Like Boas, L?vi-Strauss
did much less field work than might be expected given his influence in anthropology (Everett, 2009). During the period 1935-1939, he taught sociology at the University of S?o Paulo in
Brazil, and made trips to the "Bororo, Kadiweu, Kawahiv, and Nambiquara peoples (all speaking different languages from different linguistic families)" (Everett, 2009). But when his actual time in the field
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