编者按语:2009年11月1日,20世纪最伟大的西方人类学家克洛德·列维-斯特劳斯过世。列氏一生致力于比较人类学研究,对亲属制度、交换理论、神话学等领域的研究有卓越的贡献,对欧美人类学学科重建起到关键作用。他通过对理论性与描述性素材的广泛综合,将人类学重新塑造成一门具有哲学内涵的学科。 Editor’s Note: November 1, 2009, the 20th century’s greatest Western anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss passed away. His life devoted to comparative anthropological research has made outstanding contributions to the study of kin system, exchange theory and mythology, which plays a key role in the reconstruction of anthropology in Europe and the United States. Through the extensive synthesis of both theoretical and descriptive material, he has reinvented anthropology into a discipline of philosophical connotations.