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Sybil Wolfram
She was a philosophy don at Lady Margaret Hall until her death in 1993; she married a German Jew, Hugo Wolfram, who had been sent by his parents to school in England after Hitler came to power in 1933. His is a (very) minor novelist and director of the Lurex Co. They were the parents of the famous mathematician and physicist Stephen Wolfram. Sybil was involved as a young woman in the controversy over the English translation of La pensée sauvage by Claude Lévi-Strauss, which appeared in France in 1962, but was not published in UK until 1966. Sybil, with the support of Rodney Needham, accused L-S of obscurantism and loose thinking, while he accused her of not understanding his French properly. See the obituary by M. Stellie Smith, "Sybil Wolfram", Anthropology Today 9.6 (1993) p.22.